The Depressing Silence of the Actors Who Have Recently Worked With Woody Allen
Parker Posey, Woody Allen, and Emma Stone at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.Joel Ryan/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Could Woody Allen finally be having his #MeToo reckoning? Allegations of abuse have been swirling around the prolific actor and director for decades, but now, after a December Los Angeles Times op-ed from his adopted daughter Dylan…
Proposed Kentucky Law: Abstinence Is the “Expected Standard” in Sex Ed
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As they resume their legislative sessions at the start of the new year, politicians in two Southern states are caught up in debates about how to best teach kids about sex. Kentucky Senator Stephen Meredith wants schools to teach that “abstinence from sexual activity…
Maternal Deaths Are Increasing in Texas, But Probably Not as Much as We Thought
NataliaDeriabina/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. A startling spike in recent years in the number of Texas women dying as a consequence of pregnancy or childbirth has spurred a furious debate over whether deep funding cuts to reproductive health services are to blame. A…
Carrie Brownstein Puts Her Last Bird on “Portlandia”
Maarten De Boer/Contour by Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Carrie Brownstein plays lots of characters in Portlandia, the Emmy-winning comedy series she co-created in 2010 with executive producer Jonathan Krisel and Saturday Night Live alum Fred Armisen—like Lance, her stoic biker dude; and Kath, determined to put 110 percent into every joyless…
Here Are 2017’s Best Protest Posters
Jessica Hill/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The year is nearly over, and politically speaking, it hasn’t been pretty. Plenty of outrageous, terrifying, shameful things have happened since Donald Trump took office, but from the very first day of his presidency, a massive contingent of the nation has taken to the…
From Oregon to Maine, Statehouses Are Having Their Own #MeToo Reckonings
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the #MeToo movement has gained steam following the damning sexual misconduct revelations against producer Harvey Weinstein in October, more and more women around the country have spoken out about a pervasive and unchecked culture of sexual harassment in American politics. So…