Donald Trump’s tax returns, will we ever see them? According to Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, the answer should be yes, because Trump is a crime guy who has (potentially) committed actual crimes, including fraud.

Friends and fellow readers, it’s happened—after 500 excruciatingly rendered (and read) pages, over the course of which we discussed womanhood, sisterhood, the female gothic, and why a generation of 12-year-old girls simply could not get enough of this fucking book, our journey through time and myriad family mysteries…

In the bowels of the internet is a web series you have likely never heard of called London Real, hosted by a man named Brian Rose. London Real is a series of “long format interviews” with what it purports are “the most important voices in the world.” In July, one of these important voices was former state judge and…

To be Black is to know love. When singer-songwriter Sade released her debut studio album, Diamond Life in 1984, the single “Your Love Is King” made a beeline for the top, dominating charts in her native England, and across the pond in the US. In the lyrics, a singular, unnamed person is the giver and cause of all…

Dr. BethAnn McLaughlin is a former assistant professor of neurology, a researcher, and one of the founders of MeTooSTEM, a group working to highlight gender discrimination in the field of science. In February 2020, McLaughlin was accused of “sidelining” people of color as well as “[bullying] volunteers, activists,…

Lord & Taylor is the latest retailer to file bankruptcy amid the economic disruption of the pandemic. It was struggling for a long, long time before covid, but in its heyday, Lord & Taylor was defined by its fanciness—a particular vision of fanciness, one that was about a specific type of ready-to-wear chicness and…

The 1995 film Kids is one of those projects that stays active in your mind long after you’ve watched the end credits roll. Following the lives of a band of misfits living in New York, and shot with the unpolished lens of a documentary, it touched on the blissful ignorance of youth and the unsettling prevalence of peer…

Now that Moesha is streaming on Netflix, ’80s babies can finally relive their favorite moments with Moesha, Hakeem, Niecy, and the Mitchells.

Bella Hadid is Elle’s August cover star, a story photographed by sister Gigi Hadid at their family’s ranch in Pennsylvania that captured Bella with a rare smile. The Q&A that follows is brief and diplomatic, especially when Hadid is asked about the Black Lives Matter movement and systematic issues within the fashion…

U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, whose son Daniel was murdered and husband critically injured, allegedly by a men’s rights activist unhappy with a verdict, has issued her first public statement since the July 19 shootings at her home.

Last Wednesday, Portland’s leading anti-police violence and Black-led organization Don’t Shoot Portland posted a message on their Instagram account, documenting a break with the Wall of Moms, a loose grouping of largely white women that had formed in response to the Trump administration’s sending of federal law…

The Paycheck Protection Program, meant to help businesses weather the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic, has been rife with allegations of corruption and mismanagement, with loans going to large corporations while many small businesses, particularly Black-run businesses, have been unable to access much-needed support.…

Miss Fame is in Switzerland. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson got their Greek citizenship finalized. Now, hottie Zac Efron is allegedly planning to move both himself and his newly hairy chest down to Australia’s Byron Bay. It’s enough to make you think that those with the capital to do it are leaving the U.S. for seemingly…

Surprise bitch, bet you thought you’d seen the last of me with the end of the NWSL’s Challenge Cup. The good news is, there are so many more women’s games to get us all through the coming months. The bad news is that the New York Liberty’s future Hall of Famer (I know it’s early but I’m calling it) Sabrina Ionescu…

In his list of “Undeniable Truths,” published in 1988 by the Sacramento Union, Rush Limbaugh declared that “Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.”

The second most soothing show on television is Planet Earth, the first being The Great British Bake Off, and no, I will take no arguments here. Planet Earth is full of little penguin bellies and baby cheetahs and pulsating translucent ocean creatures, and though the underlying message always seems to be that all these…