To be a Native American reporter—to be Native at all—is to be constantly active, constantly tired, and constantly mad.

Lena Khan is the first Hijabi director in Hollywood. After attending film school at UCLA, Khan went on to create her first feature film, The Tiger Hunter, which is about a young Indian man who comes to America in search of success. The film is a comedy based on the experiences Lena’s parents and members of the…

There’s been a glitch in the simulation that is our world: a Real Housewife changed her iconic hairstyle.

Democratic candidates are worried about maintaining their progressive cred without alienating centrists or succumbing to accusations from the right of a socialist takeover. The surprise is that you can’t actually do both of those things because you’re going to get called socialist anyway!

Earlier this month, Emily Edgington was working alone at a Family Dollar in Mansfield, Ohio and needed to pump breastmilk for her three-month-old baby. There was no one to relieve her during the break, so she scrawled a message on a scrap of paper reading, “Sorry. Had to pump for baby + no1 else is here. Be back in…

When Skydance Animation hired John Lasseter, the former chief creative officer at Pixar and Disney, to head up its animation department in January, Time’s Up released a statement. The group said hiring Lasseter to such a high-level position, considering that he left Pixar following sexual harassment allegations,…

Welcome to Jezebel’s Midweek Madness, where international fugitive Joan Summers is reporting live from an undisclosed location in the wake of last week’s installment. Fearing that the Alliance of Romantically Unsatisfied Heterosexuals would make the first move, my editors thought it best to temporarily relocate me…

The question of what to do about South African runner Caster Semenya—to which the answer is, obviously, nothing, just let her compete—has long plagued the sporting world’s governing body, and they still can’t get it right. On Monday, Semenya’s lawyers launched an appeal against the International Association of…

Reprinted from Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman. Copyright © 2019 by Saidiya Hartman. Used with permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.

I remember when I first realized I didn’t really like Bernie Sanders, which felt different from when I first realized that I didn’t always like his politics. It was that viral moment from a campaign event in early 2016 when a small bird landed on his podium: he laughed as if it meant something, the crowd laughed as if…

In some ancient culture cats were considered as gods. Now, without so much as grasping the concepts of money or work, they can become pampered decadents and even millionaires in their own right.

The news that Tristan Thompson and Khloe Kardashian—who together have a daughter, True Thompson—broke up came last night, and this morning, it really looks like the cause of the split is that Thompson cheated.

Two weeks ago, Gucci pulled a balaclava sweater from stores following accusations of blackface for its large, red mouth opening and long, black neckline. In a new letter sent to Gucci staffers by CEO Marco Bizzarri and acquired by TMZ, the fashion mogul claimed ignorance, writing that he was unaware of “the history…

Former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe’s book tour has primarily consisted of him suggesting that maybe the president of the United States is a Russian asset, a point he reiterated on CNN on Tuesday. But Kellyanne Conway didn’t like that, accusing McCabe of being a “known liar and leaker.” And that’s her job!

There is allegedly a great, big super moon outside my window—not just any super moon, mind you, but potentially the biggest, brightest, super mooniest super moon we’ll get to see until 2026. I could look at it, but I will not. Sorry, moon! I’m sure you have many other, far more interested fans.

A Covington High School student caught on camera engaging in a stand-off with a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial last month is suing The Washington Post for $250 million in damages, alleging the newspaper “wrongfully targeted and bullied” the teen as part of “a modern-day form of McCarthyism.”