In the face of a pandemic, Fox News initially dismissed or downplayed worries about COVID-19. They encouraged people to travel, supported Donald Trump’s talking points about the new coronavirus being a Democrat hoax, and generally undermined public health. They changed their tune, but only so much. The Fox News network is still dedicated to sustaining […] More
Many corporations are really hurting right now as people stay home, shops shut down, and normal life comes to a halt due to the spread of the novel coronavirus. However, people are finding a limited supply of sympathy for them, wondering why they spent their money on things like stock buybacks instead of saving up […] More
The thing about quarantine is that everything has changed completely almost right away. The loss of what we think of as normal life wasn’t gradual. This sudden stoppage has forced folks not only into their homes, but into their own heads. It’s given everyone a lot of time to think about themselves and the way […] More
Nothing brings out the problems with capitalism like a global crisis that severely threatens the economy. As people are laid off en masse while businesses close their doors left and right, people are seeing first-hand how easy it is for the government to offer huge amounts of money and freeze mortgage and rent payments, all […] More
Look, money is always tight (or so it seems). That means you need to pick and choose when and where to pinch a penny and when and where to splurge. It’s not always an easy decision—and it’s different for every person. Some people like to treat themselves to lattes but cringe at the idea of […] More
Often, posts on the subreddit r/AmItheA**hole are about petty disagreements and silly fights where the writer wants to know if they were a big a**hole in the conflict. This much more serious one about parenting seems to have touched a nerve for a lot of people who can really relate. The original poster seems to […] More
Men like to explain things to women. They like to do it so much, there’s actually word for it: mansplaining. At this point, the stereotype of men mansplaining is so well known, it feels like all the men should have heard about it by now and stopped doing it. Unfortunately, that is not the case. […] More
Everybody makes mistakes. Some mistakes are bigger than others. Sometimes those mistakes are made at work. And sometimes those mistakes you make at work are so bad that whether or not you get fired, they haunt you for the rest of your life and one day you make your confession on a Twitter thread to […] More
A cruel irony is that most often it’s the person with a uterus who is tasked with the responsibility of birth control, but we still live in a world where their choice about how to manage fertility can be invalidated—by the state, by their partners, and even by their doctors. This story about a woman […] More
The coronavirus outbreak is very concerning for a lot of reasons. It seems to be spreading, and world health officials are concerned that quarantine efforts have failed because the virus incubates longer than they thought. It is also spreading in places with fairly robust health systems, which implies that a global pandemic might not be […] More
One of Donald Trump’s biggest voting blocks is evangelical Christians, who basically think he’s brought Jesus back to the White House. Trump caught some flack from the editor’s of Christianity Today, a publication that basically tells evangelicals what’s what, but he seems to have found a way to bounce back, recruiting key figures in that […] More
Most of us have had that one boss who was way too into the job to the point that it was detrimental to the employees who did the real work. Evidence of this is piling up in the comments of one comic writer’s tweet asking for stories of the “most bonkers” thing that happened to […] More
