LGBTQ people — especially trans people — shouldn't feel guilty for choosing not to spend the holidays with the people who support the regime that wants to eradicate them.
From Scott Galloway to Tucker Carlson, the panic over endangered manhood isn’t helping boys — it’s enforcing the same rigid gender rules that harm everyone.
For MAGA loyalists, Trump is a charismatic, even divine figure. But with the president’s questionable mental and physical health, the unpopular VP has been stealthily charting his...
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News & Issues
The CNN journalist obsessively scrutinized President Biden’s age and health, but seems unaware that our current 79-year-old president is in rapid decline. We’re here to help.
Hey Jake Tapper, Have You Noticed Trump Is Old and Unwell?
The story of the former congressman’s victim — and the many underage sex workers and trafficking survivors like her — is tragic in no small part because of the dire economic...
The administration claims it’s targeting “narcotraffickers” with deadly strikes on Venezuelan boats, a justification that falls apart under Trump’s pardon of Honduras’s...
The blustering, pro-wrestling-loving Trump administration is dedicated to the appearance of being strong and effective in the eyes of a credulous MAGA base, all while grifting from and...
Culture
The CNN journalist obsessively scrutinized President Biden’s age and health, but seems unaware that our current 79-year-old president is in rapid decline. We’re here to help.
Hey Jake Tapper, Have You Noticed Trump Is Old and Unwell?
A series about scorned women could have interrogated misogyny; instead, it lets Kardashian cosplay liberation in couture and clichés.
Trump has manufactured a crisis of violent crime in the Windy City, siccing masked ICE agents on immigrants and their defenders. And the mainstream media is both-sides-ing the story.
As the author argues, early 2000s comedies like 'Mean Girls' and 'Freaky Friday' featured two-dimensional leads. But with more women taking the helm in the industry, emotionally complex...
Journalism isn’t just about telling stories. It's also about who tells them
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Science
Twenty-five years ago, a French medication developed in the 1980s called RU-486, now known as mifepristone, became available in the U.S. market. Since the Dobbs decision, it's helped...
Mifepristone Reaches a Milestone Amid a Hostile Environment
Entropy is a scientific concept that measures the probability of disorder. When applied to the history of dictatorial regimes, it can often reveal that eventually autocrats overplay...
Many of us wear smartwatches with tracking technology to monitor our step counts, sleep, oxygen saturation, even menstrual cycles, to help detect health issues early. Now wearing them...
In addition to Covid prevention, medical researchers are discovering ways mRNAs could treat various cancers, HIV, and sickle cell anemia. But RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are...
Podcasts
The long history of pool segregation: from the pre-Civil Rights Era to modern day defacto segregation
Episode One: Perilous Waters
There are plenty viral news stories where people of color have been confronted in public spaces, but there’s a long history of the policing of public spaces.
Late-night pioneer Robin Thede joins Ashley to answer listeners' questions about navigating working relationships, and turning pettiness into power.
Ellevest CEO Sallie Krawcheck reminds women of the key to true gender equality: Learning to take control of our money is the only way to dismantle the patriarchy.