The Big Bang Theory is a CBS sitcom about a group of geeky adults that has run for 12 staggeringly long years. In that time period, it has attracted critical ire, many Emmys, and earned its stars million-dollar salaries. But now this show is dying and I, a pop culture critic with a heart made of onyx who has never…

There are currently thousands of people in Tijuana waiting to enter the United States so that they can apply for asylum. Because the Trump administration is tightly controlling the number of people who can cross the border to be processed each day—a policy called “metering,” which was also used by the Obama…

On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision to temporarily block a Louisiana law from 2014 that would have effectively shuttered all but one of the state’s three remaining abortion clinics and represents a dangerous swerve in the high court’s precedent.

As long as there have been laptops, people have been shoving them in bags. Incredible advances have occurred since that first big honking computer got shoved into a slighter bigger honking bag decades ago. Fabrics have grown more durable, straps more comfortable, and bag design itself has diverted into a wide number…

In Nancy Meyers’s 2000 film What Women Want, Mel Gibson plays a sleazy, womanizing advertising executive oblivious to the fact that he’s a terrible person. When a freak accident leaves him with the ability to read women’s minds, he discovers they all despise him and are far more complicated creatures than his tiny man…

Nancy Oakley, a city commissioner in Madeira Beach, Florida has resigned amid allegations that she got drunk at a fishing contest then licked a colleague’s face after accusing him of having an affair.

A person called Pecker is threatening to unleash photographs of Bezos penos (sorry, so very sorry) unto the world, and to that, Jeff Bezos, myself, everyone who likes dick, and everyone who doesn’t, say “No thank you, Mr. Pecker.”

Earlier this week, gossip blogs were reporting that Hayden Panettiere might not see her 4-year-old daughter all that much, since she lives in Ukraine with her father, former boxer, Wladimir Klitschko. In response to those reports, Pannettiere Tweeted a photo of a child, presumably her daughter, strapped into a car…

The president is complaining about “presidential harassment.”

I remember watching 2 Chainz eat a $295 burger on GQ’s “Most Expensive Sh*t” series and thinking, “hell to the naw.” $295 for a burger?! And you don’t even get fries with it! Of course, this was not a regular burger, but the “Le Burger Extravagant” from Serendipity 3. The burger consists of all the usual expensive…

Sometimes you get so mad you want to KICK and SCREAM and maybe say some not so nice things. It happens, especially if you’re struggling with a bunch of complicated emotions you may be experiencing for the first time.

In the past week, at least five current or former government officials have been confronted with participating in blackface. On Friday, the Virginian-Pilot revealed that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam published a photo of a man in blackface next to a man in a Ku Klux Klan costume in his 1984 medical school yearbook.…

Director Woody Allen is suing Amazon Studios for $68 million after the company withdrew from a five-picture deal in response to the sexual abuse allegations made against Allen by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow. Farrow first came forward against Allen in 1992, when she was 7 years old.

The anecdotal evidence that skiing is bad has been mounting ever since I had to be pulled down a frosted North Carolinian precipice by an instructor on my first and only ski excursion after a pouty hour spent refusing to move. I was nine? And prone to surrendering my will with terrible timing, but still. Some things…

Going out for drinks with my friends is a 95-percent fun experience. The 5 percent of my evening that isn’t fun is familiar to most women and LGBTQ people—it’s the numerous instances throughout the night when I’m being vigilant.

On Wednesday, during the House’s first gun violence hearing in eight years, Florida Representative Matt Gaetz tried to remove Parkland parents from the audience. The parents took issue with Gaetz’s derision of H.R. 8, an act that would require background checks for every gun purchase in America. Gaetz asserted that…

Ian Parker’s takedown of bestselling thriller writer Daniel Mallory in The New Yorker reads like a grocery store paperback: handsome writer dupes the world by spinning fictions as elaborate as those of his literary hero, Tom Ripley. Gains fame and fortune only to be foiled in the end by lies that finally grew big…

Washington state is in the middle of a frightening measles outbreak: There are currently at least 55 confirmed cases in the state, according to a report from the Washington Post published Thursday. Almost all of them, so far, have been in Clark County, where public health officials have reported 50 confirmed cases…