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...
As Trump’s mental acuity and health spirals, his closest advisers are increasingly gaining influence and power as they vie to accede his throne — following another page out of the...
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.
Journalism isn’t just about telling stories. It's also about who tells them
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News & Issues
Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has consistently supported decriminalizing sex work. So why has media coverage consistently misrepresented his position?
The Complicated Politics Around Sex Work and the NYC Mayoral Race
On the writer’s travels to Italy, she discovered Trump is less like Hitler and more like the buffoonish Mussolini. Only time will tell if he and his minions face a similar...
The extended federal shutdown is revealing itself to be the Trump administration's power grab to reshape the "American experiment" into an imperial level of unchecked and uncheckable...
One of this administration's biggest goals is enacting a 21st-century Jim Crow era. And with SCOTUS poised to further dismantle the Voting Rights Act, they may just pull it off.
Culture
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...
Neurotic Women Protagonists Are Having a Moment
When he transitioned five years ago, our former "All the Rage" columnist Jude Doyle discovered just how much we all — cis and trans people — play dress-up with our gender...
At a time when women in the U.S. are losing rights to their autonomy, a regressive domestic lifestyle with a long history in white supremacy is being pushed on social media by other...
Bari Weiss built The Free Press on ideologically driven journalism. Now she's bringing that to one of America's biggest news networks.
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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.