The Fugees' first show in 15 years begs the question: Can you be disappointed by a miracle?
Miracles are reserved for the inexplicable and the unimaginable. The Fugees announcing a tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their album The Score and the surprise New York City pop-up performance the day after that announcement were miracles.…
By Keith Nelson Jr.

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How to save your skin from climate change
By Melissa Pandika
In the United States, wildfires have scorched the West, while hurricanes have flooded the Southeast. This June was the hottest one on record for the continental U.S., and July was the hottest month recorded on Earth. As long as climate change…
Inside the ooey-goey world of 'sploshing,' the food fetish that's taking over TikTok
By Melissa Pandika
When I recently watched a TikTok of someone smashing two pies into a model’s face, my type A self immediately felt compelled to wipe up the cream filling dripping down her head and blouse with a paper towel. But apparently, what I deemed a hot mess,…
Trump is apparently trying to kick Mitch McConnell out of his job
By Rafi Schwartz
It seems safe to say that given his unyielding pursuit of conservative judges and tax breaks for the wealthy, plus his near-pathological delight in ruining anything resembling progress for the left, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is one of…
A new season of 'Tiger King' is the last thing the world needs right now
By Chloe Stillwell
Considering that we're living in a fast paced, chaotic world again —where phrases like "during lockdown" and "when we were in quarantine" are whispered, unmasked over post vax cocktails — it can be hard to remember those bleak months of 2020 during…
Late night hosts tried to solve the climate crisis (spoiler: they didn't)
By Kara Weisenstein
The weather this summer has been, uh, terrifying. Extreme heat boiled the normally-cool Pacific Northwest. Two hurricanes flooded New York City's subway system, creating somewhat of an underground tsunami. Wildfires once again raged across the West.…
The Fugees' first show in 15 years begs the question: Can you be disappointed by a miracle?
By Keith Nelson Jr.
Miracles are reserved for the inexplicable and the unimaginable. The Fugees announcing a tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their album The Score and the surprise New York City pop-up performance the day after that announcement were miracles.…
I hope Marjorie Taylor Greene never logs off
By Rafi Schwartz
Time to Log Off is a weekly series documenting the many ways our political figures show their whole asses online. You would think that Marjorie Taylor Greene — a human shitpost born from the internet's slimy underbelly who managed to drag herself…
Tucker Carlson is now spouting the talking points of racist mass murderers
By Rafi Schwartz
At a certain point you have to ask yourself why Tucker Carlson doesn't have permanent facial scarring from all the times his mask slips. The man has outed himself as an overt racist so many times that it's a wonder he even bothers pretending to be…
Studies suggest that Pfizer is no longer the cooler vaccine
By Ian Kumamoto
After I got my Pfizer shot last spring, I showed my vaccine card with pride wherever I went: I felt like I had the Comme des Garçons of inoculations and everybody needed to know. For some time, people I knew on social media also propagated the…
Uma Thurman recounted her abortion as a teen in a powerful rebuke of the Texas law
By Kara Weisenstein
The draconian Texas antiabortion law that went into effect on September 1 "is a staging ground for a human rights crisis for American women," writes actor and mother Uma Thurman in a poignant, heartbreaking op-ed for the Washington Post. For the…
Wow, Donald Trump is actually following through on a threat to sue someone
By Rafi Schwartz
This week former President Donald Trump, a man whose sole animating principle is self-aggrandizement at the expense of others, did something decidedly out of character: He sued someone. In fact, he sued several someones, including his niece Mary…
Willie Garson’s pristine performance on 'Sex and the City' changed queer representation forever
By Chloe Stillwell
Sex and the City is a show that for better or worse raised a lot of us. It's a cross generational juggernaut that captivated Boomers just as much as it did Gen X and the elder Millennials who were allowed by their more liberal parents to watch it…
Amazon wants to legalize it
By Melissa Pandika
Amazon isn’t exactly known for its commitment to employee wellbeing. Earlier this month, six U.S. senators called for an investigation into whether it adequately protects pregnant warehouse workers. The company has also come under fire for skimming…
If "Today Is America" then what the hell is tomorrow?
By Rafi Schwartz
It's been almost a decade and a half since Stephen Colbert — still in the midst of his faux-conservative blowhard persona — released I Am America (and So Can You), a collection of satirical writings on the various right-wing bugbears of the Bush…
After shutting up for a minute, celebrities want everyone to listen to them again
By Brandon Yu
Fear not, world — celebrities have swooped into save the day again. In a moment that feels like a sequel to the infamous "Imagine" cover video, a trove of famous people have signed a letter addressed to world leaders to take action in “ending the…
How to save your skin from climate change
By Melissa Pandika
In the United States, wildfires have scorched the West, while hurricanes have flooded the Southeast. This June was the hottest one on record for the continental U.S., and July was the hottest month recorded on Earth. As long as climate change…
Daniel Craig's take on a woman playing James Bond is both right and terribly wrong
By Kara Weisenstein
Since No Time To Die is Daniel Craig's last outing as James Bond, there's been a lot of talk about who will succeed him as 007. The rumor mill has favored actors like Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Daniel Kaluuya and Regé-Jean Page to don the suit of the…
Megan Rapinoe, Nneka Ogwumike, and 500 more elite women athletes took a stand for abortion rights
By Keith Nelson Jr.
In a move as symbolic as it is demonstrative of the issue's severity, more than 500 women athletes are going straight to the Supreme Court to prevent an anti-abortion dystopia. As part of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, the…
Why are more people puking when they get high?
By Tracey Anne Duncan
In this disaster-prone moment in time, many of us are having a hard time relaxing. Some have turned to a time-tested stress reliever to chill out — smoking weed. But besides the usual cannabis-related side effects — like laughing too much at a cup…
There are QAnon NFTs now, because one grift deserves another
By AJ Dellinger
You're not going to believe this, but one of the main men of the QAnon movement is grifting people. That's right: Ron Watkins is turning his tweets into NFTs. The man is thought to be behind the QAnon character that has swept up millions of people…
100 years after the country's largest labor war, its dark legacy still looms
By Kim Kelly
In Brookwood, Alabama, in the northern part of the state where the tip of the Appalachian Mountain range digs deep into the red clay, 1,100 coal miners are on strike. They, their families, and their union, the United Mine Workers of America, are…
An anti-vaxx school employee came to work in blackface, apparently comparing herself to Rosa Parks
By Melissa Pandika
In the latest example of anti-vaxxers playing victim, a special education assistant at a Newberg, Oregon elementary school reportedly wore blackface to work last Friday to protest a vaccine mandate for district employees. A staff member told the…
Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero’ is a vulnerable guidebook on self-acceptance
By Brandon Yu
The first song on Lil Nas X’s debut album, Montero, is appropriately the chart-topping track of the same name “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” — a shared title that is also, appropriately, the pop star’s real first name. This record is our formal…