Since the agency’s creation post-9/11, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials have always made it clear that their priority is to enforce cruelty. During last Wednesday’s ICE raids on seven poultry plants in Mississippi, that mission was on full display—in the form of weeping children separated from their…

After Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide this past weekend, James B. Stewart, a columnist at the New York Times, decided it would be a great idea to write about how he met the noted pedophile in August of 2018, ostensibly to talk with Epstein about the rumor that he was advising Elon Musk. It is an extremely strange…

Sometimes, especially during times as terrible as our current moment, we get the morally dubious hero we deserve: Enter Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the former planner of the Met Gala who organized Donald Trump’s inaugural celebration and then became a senior adviser to her long-time friend Melania Trump only to be…

On Monday, days after ICE conducted the largest workplace raid in its history and targeted and arrested hundreds of undocumented workers at poultry factories in Mississippi, the Trump administration announced that a rule that would make it harder for immigrants who use public programs like Medicaid or SNAP to obtain…

Every four years, we are blessed with the spectacle of presidential candidates descending upon the Iowa State Fair and gamely eating their weight in meat and fried foods on sticks, all while smiling and trying not to puke.

Just trying to shoot Diet Dr. Pepper straight into my veins!

Three years ago, right before the 2016 elections, I embarked on a road trip from New York City to southern California, cramming as many national parks and campgrounds as I could into two months, at times sleeping in the back of my car with my dog in truck stop parking lots. As you might imagine, this involved spending…

Speaking before a group of largely Asian American and Latinx voters in Iowa on Thursday night, Joe Biden—in classic Joe fashion—said some wildly dumb shit about poverty, race, and educational success.

My favorite word is “DietDrPepper.”

On Wednesday, the Trump administration conducted the largest workplace raid since the Immigration and Customs and Enforcement was founded nearly 20 years ago. The sweeps targeted undocumented immigrants working at poultry processing plants in six different towns around Jackson, Mississippi. They caused chaos and…

Cyntoia Brown, who served 15 years in prison for killing a man who solicited her for sex when she was 16-years-old, is now free. Brown, who was a victim of trafficking, has maintained that she was acting in self-defense.

Shortly after a gunman shot and killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio Republican State Representative Candice Keller decided to publicly blame the mass shooting on a variety of culprits—from drag queens to immigrants to “snowflakes.” In short, everything but guns.

It is the year 2019 for me as well as for Mariah Carey, yet do we live in the same reality? Likely not, as she is a very rich and famous pop star and I am a lowly blogger who is still wearing pajamas covered in dog hair.

Over at New York magazine’s vertical the Cut, Vanessa Grigoriadis has written a deeply reported piece, timed to coincide with the release of a new podcast, on Ivanka Trump’s past, present, and, god help us, her future.

On the same day that a white supremacist shot and killed 21 people at a shopping center in El Paso, Texas and a gunman in Dayton, Ohio shot and killed nine people in the city’s busy downtown, Donald Trump crashed a wedding at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey. He smiled and posed for photos with the bride and…

On Thursday night, presidential candidate Marianne Williamson and CNN’s Anderson Cooper had an extremely unsatisfying and ultimately futile debate about a topic that neither of them is qualified to speak on with any level of authority—and that is the use of antidepressants in treating depression.

Marianne Williamson—the spiritual guide, author, and presidential candidate who is 85 percent good and 15 percent “Oh no”—has, over the years, amassed quite a black book full of famous friends.

The media world has a bright new shining star, and it is Jeffery Kraft, a bowtie-adorned kid journalist who asked Marianne Williamson on Tuesday night about her pets.

Get me a Diet Dr. Pepper, stat!

On Wednesday night, Kirsten Gillibrand got into it with Joe Biden, whose decades-long record is basically a menu of terrible shit that is very worth getting into it over. The topic was Biden’s lone opposition to expanding a childcare tax credit while in the Senate in 1981, and a companion op-ed he wrote that argued…