Last week in Cork, Ireland, a 27-year-old man was found not guilty of raping a 17-year-old girl, as reported by the Irish Examiner. In the defense’s closing argument, his lawyer asked the jury to consider the teenage girl’s underwear. “You have to look at the way she was dressed,” the defense lawyer said. She added…

Friends and actors Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski were arrested along with hundreds of other women in Washington, DC on Thursday during a protest over Brett Kavanaugh, who sure looks like he will be confirmed to the Supreme Court this weekend.

Break out your poster board from wherever you... store your poster board... because the National Women’s March is BACK, baby. Or, at least, it will be back in January 2019, per organizers.

Women across the country are leading protests at the offices of several U.S. senators, calling on them to block the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by two women.

After hours of debate that went on until the early morning hours on Thursday, Argentina’s Senate voted on a bill to legalize abortion and rejected the measure 38-to-31.

Pussy Riot, the musical group that moonlights as a protest group (or vice-versa?), has claimed responsibility for the group of people who disrupted Sunday’s World Cup final between Croatia and France. The act of protest involved four people—all dressed in law enforcement uniforms—running onto the field (and…

Today, like every cursed day under this administration, is horrible in its own unique way.

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in cities across Ireland and Northern Ireland to protest the unanimous acquittal of two international rugby stars accused of raping a 19-year-old girl in 2016.

Sunday night, while the stars filed into the Dolby Theatre for an Oscars ceremony that awarded an alleged rapist and an alleged domestic abuser, protesters gathered a few blocks away in hopes of ensuring that accusers have a better chance at justice.

On 77th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan, penned in a holding pattern while an estimated 200,000 people waited to march, an ocean of blue was at a standstill. Situated in a cluster of about a hundred women and men was something like a roving art installation: at its fore, two six-foot pink “gates” reading…

What will awards season look like in Hollywood now that many powerful men are facing allegations of sexual assault, abuse, and misconduct stretching back decades? Fittingly enough, a funeral.

On Saturday, emboldened by the white nationalists and neo-Nazis who came out in droves to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, 20-year-old James Fields, an admirer of Nazi concentration camps, plowed his car straight into a crowd of counter-protesters,…

There are a lot of people to thank for last week’s failure to pass the Obamacare replacement and repeal bill in the Senate, including the three Republican senators who broke with party lines to vote against the bill. But the role that activists played—particularly women and advocates for disability rights—cannot be…

The G20 summit is underway, and shit is popping off in Hamburg. Unfortunately, the Trumps have been experiencing a few challenges on the journey.

One of the opening questions in Jeff Sessions’ hearing today was: does Jeff Sessions like Jason Bourne or James Bond movies? (He likes neither, but he does enjoy a good David Ignatius paperback, te-he; it was one of the few unequivocal truths we learned from that hearing). In any case, it was a setup for Republican…

On Tuesday afternoon, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa’s opponent in next year’s congressional election tweeted a photo that appeared to show Issa standing on the roof of an office building filming protestors on his phone, an arresting image that was quickly associated with a very good scene from The Office.

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has decided to remove one of its new sculptures, Scaffold by the white artist Sam Durant, due to protests from many Native American artists and tribal groups.

A scheduled talk by Ann Coulter for April 27 was cancelled by UC Berkeley, citing safety concerns around protests to her very presence. On Twitter, Coulter insisted she would be giving her speech come hell-or-high-water. The university has now offered to have her at another date, but she is very unhappy with their…

An appearance by cultural scourge and talking head Ann Coulter at U.C. Berkeley was cancelled Wednesday by officials concerned for student safety, the Washington Post reports.

After being roundly panned for a heroically tone-deaf and appropriative ad in which Kendall Jenner, social justice warrior, initiates world peace by handing a can of soda to a curiously underdressed cop, Pepsi has issued a few statements to clear the air. This was clearly tough, given that Pepsi is still the same…