As COVID-19 cases in California continue to skyrocket, Downtown Disney, the shopping district area of Disneyland in Anaheim, California, officially reopened late last week. The same week, another place that could arguably be referred to […]
Michelle Obama's Spotify Podcast to Focus on Relationships, Hard Conversations
Michelle Obama will release the first episode of her Spotify podcast — the product of the Obamas’ previously announced partnership with the streaming service — on July 29th. The Michelle Obama Podcast “features deep dives […]
L.A.'s New Year's Day Rose Parade Is 2021's First Huge Cancellation
On Wednesday, organizers of the 2021 Rose Parade announced that they are canceling Pasadena, California’s iconic New Year’s Day bash — which is typically viewed by tens of millions of households each year — for […]
How Do Women Become White Supremacists?
In the years following Trump’s election, the deadly Charlottesville rally, and shooting massacres such as the those in Christchurch, New Zealand, El Paso, Texas, and Poway, California, many people have tried to address a virtually […]
'Almost Famous' Podcast: 10 Things We Learned
Four minutes into the new Almost Famous podcast, Kate Hudson describes a discussion she recently had with her therapist. “‘I’m feeling like I’m 40 and I just wanna…’ And my therapist goes, ‘You wanna get […]
Pepe the Frog Creator Tries to Reclaim Meme in 'Feels Good Man' Doc Trailer
The creator of Pepe the Frog — the comic character that became an alt-right-troll meme — attempts to reclaim his creation in the new trailer for Feels Good Man, a documentary about cartoonist Matt Furie […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Addresses Anti-Semitism in Sports and Hollywood
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar addressed anti-Semitism in the sports world and Hollywood in a new column for The Hollywood Reporter. In his piece, he questioned why in the midst of the Black Lives Matters movement, […]
A Wayfair Child-Trafficking Conspiracy Theory Is Flourishing on TikTok, Despite It Being Completely False
Late last week, when #wayfair started trending on Twitter, one would have been forgiven for assuming that the hashtag was started by a medium-to-high-end household decor enthusiast. Yet the roots of the trend were much […]
State-Sanctioned Murder Is Back, Thanks to SCOTUS
If the Republican Party’s who-cares-if-grandma-dies response to the coronavirus hasn’t convinced you that the “pro-life” label is absurd when applied to the GOP, then maybe this will: This morning, President Donald Trump’s government executed the […]
Could the CIA Have Planted Hair-Metal Propaganda During the Cold War?
What if it turned out your favorite song had been written by the CIA? That’s exactly what a new podcast aims to determine. In 1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, West German […]
A Teenager Didn't Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention
This story was originally published by ProPublica PONTIAC, Mich. — One afternoon in mid-June, Charisse* drove up to the checkpoint at the Children’s Village juvenile detention center in suburban Detroit, desperate to be near her […]
How a Perfect Storm of Forces Finally Changed the Racist 'Redskins' Name
If you want to truly understand just how monumental, how transformative it is that the NFL’s Washington football team on Monday officially dumped its racist nickname, the Redskins, we need to briefly go back in […]