Over the weekend, Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan of an apparent suicide. The moment it happened I could almost hear the sound of a million conspiracies blooming on the internet, each more insane than the next. It hadn’t been unthinkable, though—it was after all his…
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The #MeToo movement shook Hollywood, the media, and high-powered corporations across America, but questions remain about its ramifications in other industries and professional work spaces. Now, new research published in the scientific journal Plos One indicates there might be some measurable changes in the workplace as a result of #MeToo: In the group interviewed, reports…
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Full disclosure: I haven’t ever been a holiday movie person. The constant suspension of disbelief you need to get through one (how did they not see that mistletoe hanging above them?!), the chuckle-inducing over-exposition, the heteronormativity of it all… It’s all a bit much. But they’re an annual tradition for hopeless romantics and seasonal spirits—and…
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In 2018 it feels like the world is at last prepared for Janelle Monáe. Ten years ago her EP, Metropolis: The Chase Suite, arrived as if from another continent, even planet. The layered, literary R&B album referenced classic space operas like Star Trek and the works of David Bowie and Prince. It seemed to foretell…
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Full Frontal host Samantha Bee is revisiting the controversy she ignited last May when she called Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” over her lack of response to President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, which separated migrant children from their parents. In a new interview with The Daily Beast, Bee now explains that she has some regrets…
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The humanitarian crisis in America resulting from the Trump administration’s institution of a “zero-tolerance policy” in April continues to unfurl with details emerging every day about what reportedly happens inside the walls of some detention centers. While much of the outrage has been focused on the separation of families and the conditions for young children,…
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