The EpiPen is one of the most brilliant lifesaving medical developments of recent years: Few other medications and devices can have such an instantaneously dramatic effect. Americans with severe...
At some point in the recent past, a roughly 60-year-old woman died in Southern California, and generously donated her body to science. 5,000 miles away, her body is about to be cut open for the...
Of all the rampant sexism being flung around during the 2016 Olympics, the most hateful may be what's happening to American gymnast Gabby Douglas, who is suffering a thousand cuts at the hands of...
Another day, another case in which a US judge hands down an extremely lenient sentence to a white, privileged rapist with a 'bright future' ahead of him. Cue fury, with people rising up to demand a...
Yesterday, a grown man got into a fight with a baby. This wouldn't be a particularly newsworthy event, but for this: The grown man was a presidential candidate from a major US party. During an event...
Last night, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump formally accepted his party's nomination in an interminable speech that incorporated fascist demagoguery and outright lies. It far...
AMC's Preacher wouldn't have been possible without Hannibal and True Blood before it — it's an orgiastic, perplexing, sometimes confusing celebration of violence and mayhem. Trying to sum up...
The clock was ticking on the Supreme Court's term when it finally released a ruling in Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt, a landmark decision exploring the constitutionality of Texas' HB2, a law...
The bathroom bill issue is sweeping across the United States, with conservatives heatedly arguing that allowing people to use the bathrooms most consistent with their gender will destroy the fabric...
If you'd forgotten about Whitewater, you've certainly remembered by now: It was all over the news yesterday in the wake of Politico's publication of a series of opposition research emails. The...
