“We’ve got some books here I want to show you,” Johnny Carson told a Tonight Show audience in March 1990. He turned to a colorful stack of paperback romance novels.

For the past several years, Tara Jacoby and Madeleine Davies have teamed up to create Valentines aimed at our uniquely troubled times. In 2018, they made them for the current administration and, in 2017, it was anti-Valentines for the person you love to hate. In that tradition, here they come again, this year in…

After the New York Times reported on multiple instances of musician Ryan Adams dangling “career opportunities while simultaneously pursuing female artists for sex,” Adams tweeted in response to the story that the report is inaccurate and apologized for his “mistakes.”

Here I am, zero plans for Valentine’s Day, and North West, the 5-year-old daughter of Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West, may or may not have just gotten a Tiffany & Co. present from her 7-year-old (?) boyfriend (??) as a gift. I am but a simple woman who wasn’t asked to be someone’s girlfriend until middle school,…

The 2019 Oscars is shaping up to be a truly spectacular train wreck. In addition to the fact that there’s no official host, it was reported that former major category winners would not be presenting to the new winners in favor of “bigger talent,” a move that was quickly fixed after actors like Allison Janney spoke out.…

The question of what Donald Trump calls himself is one that I have never asked myself, but on Thursday, the answer was revealed. In former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe’s upcoming book The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, he shares this pleasant phone call he received one day…

The F.B.I. is investigating a fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Missouri as a potential civil rights crime, offering a $10,000 reward to anyone with information that could lead to an arrest. Under the Federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, it is illegal to damage a facility on the basis that it…

Empire actor Jussie Smollett has given his first interview since surviving a racist, homophobic attack in Chicago last month that left him hospitalized.

A Connecticut judge has ruled that Alex Jones will have to sit for a five hour deposition in the defamation case brought against him by family members of the Sandy Hook massacre.

Adriana Chechik is The Squirt Queen. This is both a widely accepted fact within the adult industry, and the title of one of her recent films. Several weeks ago, the wildly popular porn performer tweeted cellphone footage of herself squirting on a public escalator. It was a firework of liquid all over the moving metal…

Rapper YNW Melly, née Jamell Demons, has been arrested on first degree murder charges in connection with the deaths of two men in Florida last October, both of whom were aspiring rappers and close friends of Demons.’

An inquiry into the much-discussed stand-off between Kentucky high school students and Native American activists at the Lincoln Memorial last month found “no evidence” that the students made “offensive or racist statements,” either to the Native Americans or the Black Hebrew Israelites.

If Miranda Lambert dumps a salad on a woman in a Nashville steakhouse but there’s no video to prove it, did it really happen? Yeah, probably. And while this video doesn’t explicitly show Lambert showering anyone with a bowl of ranch-drenched iceberg lettuce, it does prove that all was not well at the ol’ Stoney River…

Happy Valentine’s Eve. Buy me some flowers.

Ryan Adams, the 44-year-old singer-songwriter and ex-husband of actress Mandy Moore, has an alleged history of pretending to help women musicians with their careers in order to pursue them sexually, according to a report from the New York Times.

We tend to talk about young people and gun violence almost exclusively in the context of school shootings, but the reality is that home can be a very dangerous place for children. More than 130 children were shot and killed in domestic violence incidents in the last year, according to the Miami Herald, McClatchy, and…

As a pre-Valentine’s Day teaser (or t0 fill the always gaping content maw), the New York Times did a reported culture piece on nudist weddings this week.