Harold Thompson choked and then murdered his partner, Gabriella Gonzalez, in a parking lot in Dallas the day she returned from having an abortion in Colorado. | Continue reading
Murdoch "blew up his fourth marriage" to the model at age 91, and the divorce settlement as reported by Vanity Fair sounds straight out of...well, Succession. | Continue reading
Sarah Snook deserves all the Emmys for her deeply affecting, nuanced performance of an emotionally unavailable woman. | Continue reading
The state is cracking down on books about racism and LGBTQ+ issues in schools, and teachers are now being punished for sounding the alarm. | Continue reading
“It’s hard knowing that I’m carrying it to bury it,” Nancy Davis, already a mother of one child, said. | Continue reading
According to Psychology Today, “dating opportunities for heterosexual men are diminishing as healthy relationship standards increase." Oh. | Continue reading
Kweli "went into a depression state of loss of appetite, sleeplessness, edgy, anxiety, and discomfort around certain women" due to our story, the lawsuit says. | Continue reading
The plan made me feel dishonest and creepy, so it took me a long time to send my novel out under a man's name. But each time I read a study about unconscious bias, I got a little closer to trying it.(jezebel.com) | Continue reading
Donate to abortion funds and other support groups to make the biggest impact with your rage. | Continue reading
The state will now "be able to impose its moral choice on a woman and coerce her to give birth," the three wrote. | Continue reading
The digital platforms people rely on to access or learn about abortion are also being wielded to spy on and punish them. | Continue reading
Jamie Spears has filed a petition to end his daughter's conservatorship entirely | Continue reading
When my brother died, I was too shattered to write his obituary. There is little record of his 29 years of life; it simply vanished. When I type “Yush Gupta,” Google autofills “Yush Gupta death,” a brutal reminder that even on the internet, a space where nothing is forgotten, Yus … | Continue reading
Recently, Jezebel received a curious email from someone who identified themselves as a co-founder of GetEmails.com, “an all new audience growth tool for publishers.” The technology, we were told, could identify anonymous visitors to a website by providing publications like us wit … | Continue reading
On Monday, my husband trudged into his former chef job at a somewhat swanky restaurant to pick up his last check, possibly ever. The two years he spent there on the line were the happiest of his life—stressful, but satisfying. He’d regale me each morning with all the recipes he’d … | Continue reading
Starting treatment with Better Help, one of the most prominent “therapy-on-demand” apps to launch over the last few years, is easy, which is more or less the point. Like many of the businesses offering therapy online, the service promotes itself as a seamless way to access mental … | Continue reading
Many tech companies are born of the idea that existing systems could be made more efficient by giving one tool multiple functionalities. For example, under the auspices of Silicon Valley, the telephone also became a camera, music player, and television, among other things, making … | Continue reading
I can’t tell you exactly what inspired me to review the 1,000-odd crowdsourced edits made to the “call-out culture” Wikipedia page, which is something that I, idiotically, recently did. Maybe I imagined that somewhere in those crowdsourced edits I’d find a press representative tr … | Continue reading
Google, dark overlord and ruler of the internet, has fired another employee who was active in workplace organizing. Kathryn Spiers, a security engineer with the company, was put on suspension on November 25, according to The Guardian, the same day that four other employees, also … | Continue reading
If you get a smart camera to watch over your loved ones, please just be aware that they’re likely insanely easy to hack. | Continue reading
Because scamming the world with her bogus blood-testing devices wasn’t enough, Elizabeth Holmes just keeps on scamming. This time, she’s apparently scamming her lawyers, who haven’t been paid for their legal services in a huge class-action lawsuit brought against Holmes for fraud … | Continue reading
This week, MIT president L. Rafael Reif released a statement admitting he and the college knew all along that Jeffrey Epstein was funding the school’s Media Lab while minimizing how much he knew about Epstein’s crimes. Now students say he should probably resign. | Continue reading
Last fall, news emerged that Google had issued massive payouts to executives accused of workplace sexual harassment, which prompted 20,000 employees to walkout in protest—an effort to push the company to do better. Now, nearly a year later, the degree of that “better” seems ques … | Continue reading
Three years ago, right before the 2016 elections, I embarked on a road trip from New York City to southern California, cramming as many national parks and campgrounds as I could into two months, at times sleeping in the back of my car with my dog in truck stop parking lots. As yo … | Continue reading
About a 30-minute Uber ride from Wall Street, there’s a dim purple basement where women, myself included, steadily accumulate bills, one by one, in three-minute song cycles. Some are as young as 18; others, old enough to be their moms. We come from Brooklyn, the Bronx, Russia, Li … | Continue reading
It seemed virtually inevitable that I would be thrown out of AutismOne, a yearly conference that has been accused of being a hive of anti-vaccine sentiments, bad science, scaremongering and worthless products. The conference has, after all, ejected several science bloggers who h … | Continue reading
The influencer is dead, but—worry not—the Olivia Jades of the world have spawned a smaller cousin: Welcome to the era of the micro-influencer. | Continue reading
Barbara Ehrenreich is “old enough to die,” she writes in her new book, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, The Certainty of Dying, and Our Illusion of Control. With that realization, Ehrenreich abandons what she describes as “medicalized death,” the endless preventive tests, … | Continue reading
The New York Times Magazine recently published a lengthy cover story on “The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley—And Won;” it’s about the battle to pass a privacy law in the country’s most populous state. It’s great and definitely worth reading, but it forgot something: … | Continue reading
Tuesday morning, I logged into a chat room full of refugees of the since shuttered PUAHate forum once frequented by University of California-Santa Barbara shooter Elliott Rodger. And I stayed there, silently watching them, for 8 hours. Here's what I learned. | Continue reading