After Georgia Republicans voted to effectively criminalize abortion in the state with a horrific, near-total ban on the procedure, some powerful figures in the film industry called for a boycott if the law goes into effect.

Han Xu, the tallest player in the WNBA, hunched over the menu at a trendy Brooklyn pizza spot, trying to figure out what to order in a place that lists “bèchamel” as an ingredient. This would possibly be difficult even if she could read English, but the Chinese center does not. Decked head to toe in American…

Most things from 2009 have not aged well. A quick list includes: Grindr, Modern Family, Farmville, Glee, Chris Pratt and Anna Faris’s marriage, Taylor Swift’s shocked face at the VMAs, “Boom Boom Pow,” and James Cameron’s Avatar. Strangely enough, however, DJ Pauly D’s skin has maintained its youthful elasticity and…

There are several remarkable things about this oft-repeated account that generally go unremarked.

Do you wish you knew more about every Democrat running for president? But you also have a life or at least pretend to and don’t want to waste what little precious moments you have googling my two dozen wretched sons and daughters? (Tough, but fair.) Not to worry—I’ve taken on the task of explaining what you need to…

In the summer of 2010 I was standing on a street corner with a sign that read: “Honk For Chuck E.!” The last name of the capitalist tycoon I was crusading for, Cheese, was left out for artistic reasons. But my fragile ego was burdened with more than the cross of a cardboard pizza box encrusted in glitter and gel pen.…

One of the earliest scenes in Ava DuVernay’s 2014 film Selma depicts the infamous Birmingham Church Bombing. In September of 1963, four adolescent girls were killed and 22 others were injured after the Ku Klux Klan made the church a target of its hatred. When I saw the film, the scene made me weep. I was grateful I’d…

Elizabeth Lederer, the former prosecutor in the Central Park 5 case, has resigned from a part-time lecturing position at Columbia Law School, citing the renewed level of interest in the 1989 trial following Ava Duvernay’s Netflix mini-series When They See Us.

New details from a lawsuit against sentimental movie machine and smarm golem Nicholas Sparks are emerging, and suffice it to say, he does not come off very well. For instance, at the cushy private school he co-founded, he was firmly opposed to the idea of a club for LGBT students, and he also wanted to ban student…

On Wednesday, a series of photos posted by activist and vaccine “skeptic” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showed him and actress Jessica Biel lobbying California state lawmakers. Those lawmakers later confirmed that the duo were there to advocate against SB 276, a bill seeking to introduce more oversight into the process that…

This week, the all-male city council of Waskom, Texas, voted unanimously to outlaw abortion within city limits, exercising whatever power is apparently bestowed on a table of old white men when at least three of them are wearing checkered button-ups.

Recently GQ ran a story about a group of major tech players, including Jeff Bezos and company executives from LinkedIn and Dropbox, who met up in an Italian village to hang out with designer Brunello Cucinelli, for some reason. But Buzzfeed reporter Ryan Mac noticed something peculiar about one of the photos used in…

Earlier this spring, Ariel Eckblad returned to work as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s legislative director following twelve weeks of paid parental leave with her new baby. In another congressional office, several things might have gotten in the way of that time: for one, congressional staffers are not…

Bryan Singer has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who claimed the director raped him when he was only 17 years old.

Operation Varsity Blues received its first prison sentence today, and it was...not a big one. A judge sentenced John Vandemoer, ex-coach of Stanford University’s sailing team, to one single day in jail for taking bribe money from Rick Singer, the infamous college admissions scandal’s (alleged) ringleader.

Former U.S. track and field champion Gabriele Grunewald died yesterday at 32 years old, a decade after she was first diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Despite her diagnosis, Grunewald competed professionally in the middle distances at the highest level for six years after she graduated college in 2010, winning a…

Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks will testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee, despite the White House’s insistence that she, you know, not do that. Should be fun!

There are lots of great questions you can ask a ghost. Like, “How’s Grandma?” or “Who killed JonBenét Ramsey?” or “Do ghosts really fuck?” Ghosts can pass through walls, communicate with other ghosts, and spy on the living, hence why an encounter with one should be pretty illuminating. Unfortunately, this does not…