Emily Alford's posts

According to a new study that should have simply been common sense, two weeks of paid sick leave at Walmart could…

Amid allegations that author Blake Bailey was a habitual sexual abuser, it seemed that publisher W.W. Norton was…

My favorite part of any Law & Order episode is when detectives question a neighbor or bystander about the perp or…

Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and their neighbor William Bryan, who were indicted last year for the…

Last Friday, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy asked Stacey Abrams for a “list of the provisions that you object to” in…

Just like humans above ground, a staggering horde of sexually deprived, subterraneous cicadas have been waiting what…

A Miami, Flordia school that, I’m assuming, is not focused on comprehensive and accurate STEM education, has…

A judge in Connecticut has dismissed a lawsuit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference and…

Over a year after the police murder of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, Attorney General Merrick Garland has…

In one of the opening scenes of Lifetime’s relentlessly self-aware 2016 reboot of its 1993 camp classic, Mother May…

Today in important feminism news: Women who joined a political party that operates under a blanket policy of denying…

Listen, I do understand that I declared Symone the winner of Season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race on this very site back…

While most of us have tried unsuccessfully to forget Brett Kavanaugh’s little crybaby tantrum over the fact that a…

If you, like me, read Machiavelli’s The Prince and thought all of the scheming and plotting and murder and…

In a move that British tabloids The Express and the Daily Mail have labeled “Black Lives Matter-inspired” and “woke…

Former employees of Level Forward, a production company developed by Abigail Disney in response to outcry over years…

Blake Bailey, the man who recently wrote a bestselling biography of writer Philip Roth that focused partially on his…

According to a recent poll by Axio-Ipsos, two out of three unvaccinated Americans say that they aren’t vaccinated…

Robert De Niro has filed a lawsuit claiming his estranged wife (to whom he has been married on and off for the…

As any scholar of McConaughian history will tell you, it is actually Texas-born filmmaker Richard Linklater who…