The Young Turks' Michael Tracey has a...dubious history with women, at best. As a college student, he sued police for "excessive force" when they arrested him for bypassing security to get an autograph from Ann Coulter (probably the only time in history this has ever happened.) ...read more

On Monday evening, publishing company Simon & Schuster canceled Milo Yiannopoulos' book "Dangerous" after a tape surfaced of comments he'd made that unambiguously advocated sexual relationships between men and boys. The white nationalists of the alt-right, unable to admit that ...read more

(Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Image Entertainment) *** Updated Below *** It's been a really bad couple of weeks for rape victims and their advocates. This isn't the kind of thing anyone should take satisfaction in, but it's also something that can't reasonably be denied. What's ...read more

A few weeks ago, the 24 year-old Rock The Vote campaign put out a celebrity-filled viral video parody of Li'l Jon's "Turn Down For What" aimed at getting young people to vote in this year's midterms. Entitled "#TurnOutForWhat," the clip featured Li'l Jon himself, along with such ...read more

Is it easier or harder to write about a subject when you don't like anyone involved in it, when you believe that just about everybody on every side of a controversy is at best operating in bad faith or at worst is being utterly insufferable? Think about that as we dig into the ...read more

I have a confession to make and it's one that anyone who follows the After Party podcast that I do with Bob Cesca already knows: I've been watching Girls this season and not entirely disliking it. Once you wrap your head around the fact that almost every female character on it ...read more

HBO's Girls returns tonight, which means that it's once again time to be inundated with lengthy, pseudo-intellectual discussions among the digital media about a show very few people are actually watching. Even if you're someone who can't wait to ignore the new season of Lena ...read more

Well, kids, we made it through another week and it's almost time to make a hasty exit out of the drop-ceilinged, fluorescent lit, Aeron-chaired, living Tetris game you know as your office and go get obscenely drunk. But before the festivities start, here's some nonsense you ...read more

Happy Friday people, it's the last day of the week so no need to do any real work. Only 8 hours till you're off and drinking/flirting/bantering with your work colleagues at your local watering hole. Anyway, kill some time by reading what's good on the internets: Obamacare is ...read more

Another Monday is here and it's back to the wheel with you, gerbils. Here are a few things you can read this morning to hopefully deaden the pain. 1. Gold Rush Here's a wrap-up of the big winners and losers at last night's Emmys, as Matt Zoller Seitz live-blogged the whole ...read more

Here's a quick rundown of what you should be reading on this Friday morning. Why? Because it beats working. 1. Green Daze Constantly pondering how screwed you are financially? Feel like it's making you crazy, or at least unable to think clearly? Guess what? It is. NPR: How ...read more

For those of you who haven't thought all this time that Lena Dunham's Girls is itself a porn parody, along comes the inevitable real -- though not exactly "official" -- porn parody of the HBO show. Last week, Hustler announced that it's in the process of shooting an erotified ...read more