A federal judge halted a Trump administration order to ban TikTok in the United States on Sunday, September 27th, the New York Times reports. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., granted TikTok a preliminary injunction […]
Climate Refugees: Displaced in Oregon, When Fire and Pandemic Collide
When the fires began to spread across Oregon in early September, tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes; many would go on to lose them entirely. Air quality in parts of the […]
With the Release of His Filmed One-Man Show, Drew Droege Shares His Birthday Party Mix
This past spring, actor and comedian Drew Droege was performing his one-man show Happy Birthday Doug at the SoHo Playhouse in New York City, when it was cut short in March like the rest of […]
A Message of Hope From the Dalai Lama
In times of trouble, the Dalai Lama’s story is one that bears repeating. The hardships include being plucked from his peasant parents as a toddler and ensconced in a spooky old palace, where he was […]
Glenn Close to Play Roy Cohn in All-Star 'Angels in America' Benefit
Glenn Close will portray closeted gay lawyer Roy Cohn in an all-star digital performance of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America, benefiting the Foundation for AIDS Research’s (amFAR) Covid-19 relief fund. Other cast […]
How Far Will Chanel Rion Go For Trump?
If you watch the White House press briefings with semi-regularity, you’ll likely see her there: ever-present scarf, belted trench dress, brows flawlessly filled in, piles of dark hair teased to near-Nineties Fran Drescher heights. She […]
How TikTok Teens Are Ending Up on Pornhub
TikTok is home to many NSFW trends (see: the ubiquitous WAP dance), many of which are fun and sometimes empowering. Yet some of these fads have been embraced by the younger segments of TikTok’s user […]
Louisville Protesters Mourn Breonna Taylor By Taking to the Streets
Jakia Marie huddled in her car just before 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Louisville, Kentucky. Her phone tuned to a local radio station, Marie listened as state Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced no officers were […]
'RS Interview: Special Edition': Margaret Atwood
Last fall, Margaret Atwood published The Testaments, a sequel to her 1985 bestseller, The Handmaid’s Tale, which for decades has served as a cautionary tale about how easily a once-democratic and thriving country such as […]
The Charges Against the Louisville Cop Involved in the Killing of Breonna Taylor, Explained
On Wednesday, September 23rd, over six months after three police officers killed Breonna Taylor while she was asleep in her apartment, a grand jury announced that just one ex-cop involved would face charges in a […]
Breonna Deserved Better
Daniel Cameron was one of the conspicuous surfeit of black Republicans who, on the first night of the Republican National Convention in August, spoke about being free of the Democrats’ mental plantations. But the 34-year-old […]
One Ex-Officer Charged in Killing of Breonna Taylor
A Kentucky grand jury has charged one former Louisville Metro Police Department officer, Brett Hankison, in the police killing of Breonna Taylor. Hankison was charged three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment. No charges were announced […]