On Friday, the Trump administration released its final draft outlining prohibitive regulations for the Title X Family Planning Program, the nation’s only federal grant program dedicated to offering family planning services. The move will prevent organizations like Planned Parenthood from accessing crucial funds, as…

They say cats are more sinister than dogs, but I think that is unfair. While dogs are continuously honored as man’s best friends, cats must dutifully assume the role of man’s worst enemy or most persistent bully. In our collective imagination, cats are often aligned with dark powers and/or the supernatural: they have…

Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh will grace our television screens once again in April, when the very excellent Killing Eve returns for Season 2. We almost didn’t have any new episodes of Killing Eve, though, because Comer almost died shooting a scene for the upcoming season. Cause of near-death? Some rather dry pasta.

Florida congressman Matt Gaetz has a nasty habit. When he’s not berating parents of school shooting victims, or inviting right-wing trolls to the State of the Union, or posting racist tweets, he’s obsessing over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, one of the most powerful men in American football, was charged today on two counts of soliciting prostitution in connection to a recent law enforcement bust on massage parlors in Florida that, according to law enforcement, were used for prostitution and human trafficking. The…

On Monday, Lisa Borders, the CEO of Time’s Up, resigned to attend to “family concerns that require my singular focus.” According to a new report from the Los Angeles Times, Borders stepped down because her 36-year-old son was accused of sexual misconduct.

Elizabeth Warren unveiled a universal childcare proposal earlier this week that aims to give all parents access to free or subsidized child care. As one of the first major actions of her primary campaign, the announcement felt something like a mission statement: Hillary Clinton released a slate of more modest…

R. Kelly is now the subject of multiple criminal investigations across Illinois, Georgia, and New York.

The Colorado House has passed a comprehensive sex education bill that would, if passed and enacted, no longer allow teachers to tell students scary lies about sex, exclude the experiences of LGBTQ people from those discussions, or push religious ideas on them. The New York Times reports that the bill is “is widely…

Desus and Mero opted for a Bronx family reunion for the Thursday premiere of their new late night show. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was the first guest on the duo’s new Showtime gig, and the Bronx natives discussed Twitter trolls, the Green New Deal, and that 70 percent marginal tax rate.

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…

It’s unclear if Jordyn Woods and Kylie Jenner will be okay after this. Woods, who just moved back in with her mom after reportedly hooking up with Tristan Thompson and effectively (?) ending Thompson and baby mama Khloe Kardashian’s relationship, has been trying to call the Kardashian-Jenners to apologize. It’s not…

On Thursday, the Women’s Media Center released its annual Status of Women in U.S. Media report and the results are pretty depressing.

On Thursday morning, the Guardian published a reported piece which interrogates an eating trend growing in popularity within tech-bro circles in Silicon Valley: extreme fasting. Arwa Mahdawi writes that “a number of high-profile tech execs extol the transformative power of extreme fasting,” while normalizing behaviors…

In the wake of the documentary Surviving R. Kelly, two more women have come forward with claims that R. Kelly targeted them for sexual abuse as teenagers.

A judge has ruled that prosecutors, including Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, mislead victims and violated the law when they did not inform survivors that a plea deal would send millionaire Jeffery Epstein to jail for just 13 months after a federal probe into allegations that he sexually abused 80 women.