Arch Enemies
A new company is bringing the engineering savvy of rocket science to the design of the high-heeled shoe. Can stilettos that are actually comfortable to wear change centuries’ worth of symbolism?
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Paramount In the End, We Got the Baywatch We Deserved
Life's a beach and then you dive.
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Mike Segar / Reuters It’s Too Late for Fox to Retract Its Seth Rich Story
The story was notably loud. Its retraction is notably quiet.
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ABC The Bachelorette: Memes for the Right Reasons
The premiere of the show’s 13th season featured one woman, 31 men, and … a stuffed dummy.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Why So Much Is ‘Bonkers’ Right Now
Is something in the news abnormal? Unprecedented? Totally wacky? Thanks to British English, there’s a perfect word for that.
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Fred Prouser / Reuters Roger Ailes's (Other) Legacy
Remembering the founder of Fox News also demands remembering the many women in his orbit—women who refused to be silent.
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IanRedding / Shutterstock The 'Leak' in the Age of Alternative Facts
From Ben Franklin to Uncle Tom’s Cabin to H.R. McMaster, a brief history of a weaponized word
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NBC Is Trump Breaking Saturday Night Live?
The show’s latest episode featured a lot of little jokes—but very few big ones.
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Amazon When Mother’s Day Is ‘Empowering’
The century-old holiday is the latest thing to take on the rhetoric of commercialized feminism.
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Justin Mintz / 20th Century Fox Snatched: A 2017 Movie That Wishes It Were 1997
The new film, starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn, is a kidnapping comedy with very little payoff.
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Walter Thompson / Comedy Central The Romance of Women's Friendships
Deborah Tannen’s new book explores the idea that platonic relationships can be as fulfilling—and as fraught—as their romantic counterparts.
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Markus Schreiber / AP The Borrowed Words of Ivanka Trump
The “inspirational quotes” of her new book, Women Who Work, function as their own, tidy versions of the alternative fact.
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Hulu The Handmaid's Tale Treats Guilt as an Epidemic
The Hulu show, like the book before it, is deeply concerned with matters of complicity—and it arrives in a culture that is deeply anxious about them, as well.
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IgorZD / Shutterstock.com The (Feminist) Case for Women's Happiness
Jill Filipovic’s new book, The H-Spot, argues for a movement that de-emphasizes women’s equality—and focuses instead on their fulfillment.
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Molly Berry / Turner / TBS Imitation and Satire at the Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner
Samantha Bee’s shadow version of Washington’s gala event was a perfect alternative fact of the real thing.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Are We Having Too Much Fun?
In 1985, Neil Postman observed an America imprisoned by its own need for amusement. He was, it turns out, extremely prescient.
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Richard Drew / AP Why Was Bill O'Reilly Really Fired?
The host’s ouster serves as an object lesson about what happens when morality and money come to a head.
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Patrick Harbron / FX The Americans Offers a Rare Lesson in Humility
“The Committee on Human Rights” explores what happens when even professional manipulators find themselves unlucky in love.
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Justin M. Lubin / HBO Veep's Return Brings Bad News for Selina Meyer
Season 6 of the HBO show indulges in a very 2017 kind of fantasy: that actions can have meaningful consequences.
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Monsoleiiil / Wikimedia Commons 'I’m Moving You to BCC'
Etiquette experts on the small mercies we can grant each other over email
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CBS.com The Good Fight and the Perils of Folksiness
The Good Wife spinoff has taken many lessons from its predecessor, and one of them is this: It knows how easily charm can be weaponized.
