“Exhilarating, joyful, and of course pretty scary": Musicians on the pressures of returning to the stage
For the past year and some change, touring hasn’t really been a thing. Musicians who relied on performing music to, well, exist, crawled into their metaphorical gig bags and slid themselves under the bed. The various shut-downs that took place…
By Kelly McClure

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Separation anxiety is real for couples who quarantined together. Here's how to handle it
By Tracey Anne Duncan
As a person who lives alone and was single for most of the pandemic, I was often envious of my cohabitating friends. They looked so safe and nested in their pandemic pillow forts. But now the pandemic is, for all intents and purposes, over for the…
How to make sure your houseplant obsession isn't killing the planet
By AJ Dellinger
Millennials might not be having kids (multiple economic collapses, a global pandemic, and looming climate crisis aren't exactly sexy), but they are still taking up the role of caregivers. The recipients of that care just happen to be houseplants.…
Add climate change to the long list of reasons the U.S. should legalize weed
By AJ Dellinger
There are plenty of reasons to legalize weed, from deescalating the drug war that has wrongly incarcerated tens of thousands of people to expanding the ability to study and understand the effects of the drug. But here's one more: to protect the…
GOP Congressman says the quiet part loud about taking back the House
By Rafi Schwartz
First term Congressman Ronny Jackson's road to the House of Representatives has been, shall we say, a strange one. A longtime member of the White House medical unit, Jackson eventually worked his way up to becoming the primary physician for both…
An entire police unit just disbanded after a single officer was charged with assaulting a protester
By Rafi Schwartz
At the height of last summer's criminal, social, and racial justice protests, Portland, Oregon stood as one of the most intense epicenters of both activist rage and violent law enforcement responses in the country. Now, nearly one year later, a…
Can this TikTok trend really banish acne and body odor?
By Melissa Pandika
If you’ve spent any time on wellness TikTok, you’ve probably noticed a number of videos of people swearing by a supplement known as liquid chlorophyll, claiming that it cleared up their skin and/or their stank. They typically squeeze a few drops of…
Snapchat quietly retires its "speed filter," which was linked to deadly car crashes
By Kara Weisenstein
What took so long, Snapchat? On Thursday, NPR reported that the app is phasing out a "speed filter" that lets users track and share how fast they are moving. Unsurprisingly, it's been linked to a number of deadly or near-fatal car crashes since…
The fast food industry's predatory marketing blatantly targets Black and Latinx youth
By Taneasha White
There’s some jarring new research out about how far fast food companies will go in order to reach their target audiences. Data from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut just revealed how racist there's brands'…
A Philly foster agency can continue discriminating against LGBTQ families, SCOTUS rules
By Rafi Schwartz
In a surprise decision on Thursday by the United States Supreme Court, all nine Justices agreed that Philadelphia's Catholic Social Services agency may continue its contract with the city to help place children in foster homes, even after the group…
Capitol insurrectionists are tired of BLM and Antifa getting credit for their work
By AJ Dellinger
Within hours of Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to interrupt the electoral vote count and upend the 2020 Presidential election results, conspiracy theories started bubbling up to dismiss reality. Some claimed that…
COVID-19 antiviral pills could be our reality by the end of this year
By Tracey Anne Duncan
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the biggest challenges is getting vulnerable infected from testing to treatment fast enough to save their lives, but we just don’t have any quick and easy treatments designed to treat the virus just yet. A…
Conservatives are having a meltdown over Megan Rapinoe replacing the Victoria's Secret Angels
By Kara Weisenstein
Conservatives are getting super bent out of shape over the fact that Victoria's Secret hired Megan Rapinoe to sell bras to women who aren't supermodels, and it's pretty funny to witness. "What PR agency suggested this garbage? Women want to look…
“Exhilarating, joyful, and of course pretty scary": Musicians on the pressures of returning to the stage
By Kelly McClure
For the past year and some change, touring hasn’t really been a thing. Musicians who relied on performing music to, well, exist, crawled into their metaphorical gig bags and slid themselves under the bed. The various shut-downs that took place…
"She's gonna disappear": A GOP congressional candidate threatened to sic Russian hitmen on his opponent
By Rafi Schwartz
A good rule of thumb, I feel, is that if you're ever thinking about making a run for federal office, you should probably ask yourself whether that time you threatened to merc your opponent with an Eastern European death squad will help or hurt your…
For the third time, SCOTUS has saved Obamacare
By Rafi Schwartz
The Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday once again struck down a challenge to the Affordable Care Act which, if successful, would have yanked health insurance away from millions of Americans who rely on the Obama-era legislation for…
AI created the "ideal" non-dairy milk and the ingredients are pretty bizarre
By Tracey Anne Duncan
The future is officially here. While my robot vacuum cleans my house, I can safely visit my favorite coffee shop — without an N95 mask — and order a vegan latte with my choice of non-dairy milks. I never care which vegan milk is offered because,…
The Biden administration just re-extended federal protections to trans students
By Rafi Schwartz
One of the defining through-lines of the Trump administration was the robust disenfranchisement of transgender people, whether students simply trying to use the bathroom or aspiring service members trying to join the armed forces. But since coming…
Trevor Noah says that canceling Chrissy Teigen misses the point
By Kara Weisenstein
No one on late night has greater range than Trevor Noah. The host of The Daily Show can be incredibly goofy at times, like an overgrown child. But when he addresses the most complex issues of our time, Noah becomes the smartest adult in the…
Separation anxiety is real for couples who quarantined together. Here's how to handle it
By Tracey Anne Duncan
As a person who lives alone and was single for most of the pandemic, I was often envious of my cohabitating friends. They looked so safe and nested in their pandemic pillow forts. But now the pandemic is, for all intents and purposes, over for the…
Los Angeles will now take its turn prosecuting convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein
By Kara Weisenstein
Justice is a dish best served on both coasts. Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein will be extradited to California to stand trial for 11 counts of criminal sexual assault, a New York judge ruled this week. The predator and former movie mogul is…
Greta Thunberg calls out G7 leaders for their frivolous and wasteful meeting on climate change
By AJ Dellinger
Over the weekend, the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations met to discuss a number of pressing issues, though perhaps none more important than climate change. While the parties left with renewed promises to address the climate crisis — though…
Watch a news anchor patiently explain to a Capitol insurrectionist which political office he's running for
By Rafi Schwartz
You probably don't know the name Jason Riddle, but you might recognize his face: He's the guy who famously stole a bottle of wine from a Capitol Hill office and chugged it in the middle of the Jan. 6 insurrection, earning himself a small little spot…
Please watch CNN go nuts over Biden and Putin's half-second handshake
By Rafi Schwartz
Whenever a United States president meets with the leader of Russia, there's always a lot of extremely stupid pomp and circumstance and hand-wringing and tea leaf-reading involved. These are, after all, two global superpowers whose adversarial…