A Beloved Ballroom Queen. A Shocking Murder. Did “Pose” Get It Right?
Mother Jones illustration; FX Warning: This piece contains spoilers. In the fourth episode of season 2 of Pose, the history-making show about ball culture in ’80s and ’90s New York City, the beloved Candy Ferocity is killed by a john in a dingy motel room. This came as a shock: It was the first death…
A Fox News Contributor Just Took Fawning Over Trump to a Whole New Level of Ridiculous
Mother Jones illustration/Fox News Donald Trump was the oldest person to ever be sworn in as president. Today he’s 73, a handful of years shy of the average life expectancy for American men. In a clip that’s bound to boost his ego, a Fox News contributor on one of his favorite shows this weekend fawned…
Dating While Trans Is Complicated. HBO’s “Euphoria” Pushed Me to Unpack My Online Romances.
Mother Jones; Eddy Chen/HBO Like most girls in her generation, Jules, a character on HBO’s groundbreaking teen drama Euphoria, falls in love through her phone. “Literally just had the most amazing night talking to Tyler,” Jules, a high school junior, texts her best friend and classmate, Rue, referring to the crush she’s been messaging for…
“Midsommar” Is Here to Scare the Socialism Scaremongers
A24 Films Like all good human sacrifice stories, Midsommar asks that simple, time-honored question: What happens when you realize you’re not just an individual—filled with hopes and fears and your own unique personality—you’re also a thing, just some meat for the pyre? Ari Aster’s film begins in winter, a foreboding snowy night when Dani Ardor…
We Need to Bury the Columbine Shooters
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Two of the future shooters were just infants and a third wasn’t even born yet when Columbine happened. But by the time they each attacked their schools last year, all three young men had drawn inspiration from the pair who committed suicidal mass murder at their Colorado high school on April…
Fox News Pulled Jeanine Pirro’s Show After Her Islamophobic Comments. Trump Wants It Back On.
Jeanine Pirro in the Trump Tower lobby in 2017.Albin Lohr-Jones/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fans of Jeanine Pirro’s Fox News show, Justice with Judge Jeanine, would have been disappointed on Saturday night after the network did not air the series during its regular time slot. Included among them was…