A 700-page anti-abortion bill proposed by Ohio state legislators includes a strange side provision that would require doctors to “reimplant an ectopic pregnancy” into a woman’s uterus or face charges of “abortion murder.” But ectopic pregnancy is the term for a pregnancy that grows outside the uterus and thus will never produce a baby. Doctors […]
When rapper T.I. announced last month that he subjects his daughter to yearly gynecological exams to check if her hymen is still intact — also known as a “virginity test” — his remarks were met with widespread outrage. Not only is the procedure medically unnecessary, it also has zero scientific basis and can have damaging […]
Let’s all do a slow clap for this beauty MacGyver. British mother Emily Kendall really wanted wavy hair, but couldn’t find her curling iron. She despaired. Then this clever girl looked around and probably heard the weird noises her radiator was making, and came up with an idea. While surely not authorized by a British […]
A 50-second clip has been floating around the internet for a few days leaving distress and confusion in its wake. It’s from an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians and involves the Kardashian sisters close-reading the dictionary. Kim explains: “Kanye always wants people to be more positive; so he came up with this little […]
Anna Wintour has her bob and sunglasses. Mark Zuckerberg has his Brunello Cucinelli hoodie. And the first thing many people remember about the late, great performer Elaine Stritch is that she chose to spend much of her long public life clad simply in a white men’s shirt over black tights. “May your heaven be a […]
What do RuPaul, Mary J. Blige, Grace Coddington, Bill Nye, Simone Rocha, Amy Sedaris, and Chloë Sevigny have in common? If you answered “Good taste in holiday gifts,” you’d be right. For an online pop-up shop called Best Gift EVER, Nordstrom asked some of its favorite celebrities to recommend presents. The gifts range from home […]
When Steve Bullock and Joe Sestak withdrew from the 2020 presidential race at the beginning of this week, it represented the inevitable, arguably overdue winnowing of a might-have-been and a never-was contender. Kamala Harris’ surprise withdrawal today was more significant, representing the demise of a candidacy that made a lot of strategic sense and that […]
On Monday night at the 2019 British Fashion Awards, Giorgio Armani was given yet another accolade: A trophy for his outstanding creative contributions to the fashion industry. Mr. Armani was joined by an all-star cast of Hollywood legends, who came out to toast the man who dressed them for years. Julia Roberts, who wore an […]
Director Harmony Korine has spent the past decade giving us his unique vision of Florida. In 2012, he gave us Spring Breakers, starring Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Benson as college students on a reckless vacation down south, where they meet a local drug dealer named Alien, played by James Franco in cornrows. This […]
When one is parsing the news and headlines of the day, here is a good rule to keep in mind: The British royal family is almost certainly never “snubbing” President Trump. This week, Britain’s Princess Anne made headlines when a video went viral that showed her shrugging after her mother, the Queen, greeted President Trump […]