Новости за 17.02.2021

More than one in four American adults have student loan debt, a $1.71 trillion crisis that outpaces credit card debt and has left the average student borrower with $33,000 in loans. College costs are rising eight times faster than both wages and inflation, and this burden is especially heavy for Black students, with…

Now that Donald Trump is out of the White House, two top military officials, whose promotions were held back because Pentagon leaders were worried Trump would be mad simply because they are women, are free to ascend to prominent command posts. Congratulations to the Biden administration and to Air Force General…

Rush Limbaugh has died.

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This week: a crash course in the carceral system’s conjugal aspects.

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Just before a New Jersey Trump Hotel and Casino was demolished for good, former events manager Bernie Dillon told NBC News that “we put Trump Plaza and the city of Atlantic City on the map for the whole world.” But this particular blight, closed in 2014 and left behind by the twice-impeached former president, has now …

This is a Hot Topic mall goth’s fever dream. Gritty villain origin stories are at an all-time high—people are fascinated by perceived madness, or at least, rooting for the bad guy—which explains how pop culture has arrived at this particular moment. On Wednesday, Walt Disney Studios released the first trailer of its…

Millions of Texans who have lost power—including my mom!—are struggling to stay warm during a historic winter storm; several people, including some children, have died as a direct result of their efforts to heat their homes. But on Tuesday night, Texas’s Republican Governor and utter shithead Greg Abbott decided to go…

In December, singer FKA Twigs filed a lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend, actor Shia LaBeouf, claiming he physically abused her over the course of their relationship. Since then LaBeouf has been dropped by his agency, and his allegedly predatory history with women has suggested a concerning pattern. LaBeouf has denied…

In the spring of 2017, Patricia Lockwood was hiding from her husband, avoiding an impending move to a new home. “You know when you’re a kid and you’re moving house, you just hide in a closet with one of your books?” she says over Zoom from her home in Savannah, Georgia, cradling her laptop in bed. “I was basically…

Japan’s ruling party, The Liberal Democratic Party, is open to having women attend key meetings—as long as they, you know, don’t say anything.

What I know about Salma Hayek’s husband is very little, but what I have pieced together is this: his name is François-Henri Pinault, he is the CEO of French luxury-goods conglomerate Kering, and he is extremely, extremely rich. Like, his family literally owns Christie’s (the auction house), and the company he runs has…

Tom Boyd, the former mayor of Colorado City, Texas, was rightfully eviscerated this Tuesday after sharing a bizarre Facebook post blaming the fallout from unprecedented freezing temperatures and snowstorms, which are currently overtaking his state, on the population’s lack of perseverance. The post, which has now…

On Tuesday, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie Thompson filed a federal lawsuit accusing Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and far-right extremist groups the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers of illegally conspiring to incite the January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill. Mississippi Democratic…

Allen v. Farrow, an upcoming four-part HBO docuseries, will dive into the disturbing accusations of sexual abuse made against director Woody Allen by his daughter Dylan Farrow and her mother Mia Farrow. Allen was first accused of molesting his daughter in 1992, when a seven-year-old Dylan allegedly told her mother Mia…

Ray Fisher and Charisma Carpenter do not need a famous ’90s actor to corroborate their accounts of emotional abuse at the hands of Joss Whedon to be believed. Still, it certainly can’t help.

President Biden is reportedly planning to revive the concept of an office within the White House that focuses specifically on women’s issues and other issues gender equity with his recently announced Gender Policy Council. The Gender Policy Council, which is a successor of the Obama-era Council on Women and Girls,…

In my beloved yet estranged home state of Louisiana, today is Mardi Gras, which means tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. A more typical year in that weird and wonderful state would mean that every person over 21 (15 if we’re being honest) was piss drunk right now and peeing behind a parked car in a strip mall parking lot…