In case you missed it, earlier this week, the novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote a letter to the New York Times in which he rebutted Frank Bruni’s column “Sexism’s Puzzling Stamina.”
Governor of Texas Rick Perry has some bad news for Texas women. On Friday afternoon, the one-time presidential hopeful notified several sponsors of a state bill addressing gender-based wage discrimination that he had vetoed it.
The linguistic snobs over at the Oxford English Dictionary have accepted "tweet" — as in "to Twitter" — into its exclusive language club because "it seems to be catching on" as a verb in its own right, which got us thinking: how did it get itself lower-case t status?
Today in show business news: Schwarzenegger will be robotic again, Guardians of the Galaxy gets more guardians, and Man of Steel is going to be big.
As we let you know earlier, Kanye West's highly anticipated Yeezus, has been released to the Internet.
According to an alarming report published by The New York Times on Friday, reporters at the company were for decades not only permitted, but frequently and forcefully encouraged, to monitor potential story subjects with the terminal software's UUID function.
With the Mad Men season winding down we had been wondering about the fate of the show's characters, especially with people pointing out gruesome connections between the closet of Megan Draper and Manson murder victim Sharon Tate. But feel free to cross death off your list of conspiracy theories, according to show creator Matthew Weiner.
While you waste the last drips of this Friday afternoon at your desk, just know there's someone out there who is much more famous than you, is much less deserving than you, and gets paid more than some people make a year to talk about motivational things for about half an hour. The gory, torturous details are all in the latest issue of The New Republic.
Have you got an hour, or possibly several hours to spare? Would you like to listen to highly paid actors yammer on about their "craft"? Well then you need to watch yourself one of, or all of, The Hollywood Reporter's consistently fascinating actor roundtable videos.
Despite all this iOS 7 negativity sounding a lot like the initial — eventually meaningless — iPhone 5 nitpicking, Apple might be reconsidering some of its questionable design choices.
In order to figure out if we are striking the right balance between freedom and security, it helps to know what's on both sides of the scale. But when it comes to the National Security Agency's domestic and Internet surveillance program, even after all of Edward Snowden's leaks, we don't actually know very much at all.
Lululemon, purveyor of crotch-flashing yoga wear, is looking for a new CEO after Christine Day stepped down this week. They placed an ad looking for the position that is looking for someone who will "wear The Mansy to lead our company-wide morning chant and kombucha ritual" to lead their company. They're joking ... we hope?
Yes, journalists: even you can get hacked. On Friday morning, a spokesperson for CBS News announced that veteran reporter Sharyl Attkisson's computer had been "accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012."
Less than a day after being accused of war crimes by the U.S. government, Syria's military got some more bad news as at it seems dozens of high-ranking officers have taken their families and fled the country.
Certain parts of the world reeled yesterday upon finding out that Rupert and Wendi Murdoch are getting a divorce. What happened? They seemed so happy, so perfect for one another. But despite their seeming wedded bliss, there were apparently problems. What sort of problems? Well that's what everyone is speculating about.
Following a week of incredibly bad press some sources have leaked some very dubious "talks" between the National Security Administration and Facebook about allowing more transparency and disclosure with government data requests.
With Amy Adams' incarnation of Lois Lane in Man of Steel we finally get an attempt to characterize our heroine as a modern shit-talking, hard-drinking, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. The early glimpses of Lois are not perfect, but they show us why more-than-ever we need a female superhero.
Despite Kanye's best attempts to keep his album Yeezus mostly under wraps, the album is now bouncing around the Internet's file servers.
Iranians are voting in their first presidential election since the "Green Revolution" of 2009, and despite the tragedy of the last vote, reformers are still hopeful they put one of their own in office.
Kirsten Powers on the backlash to Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald on his long week, Francis X. Rocca on the new pope's relationship with Jews, Sherrilyn A. Ifill on the future of affirmative action, and Sasha Weiss on our age of online exposure.
When his father dies just months after his mother, a reporter searches for answers — and finds more than just a coincidence.
The thing about HBO's The Newsroom is that it centers on news events of the recent past, rewriting history so Will McAvoy and his ACN primetime team emerge heroes. But late Thursday night, star Emily Mortimer revealed that Aaron Sorkin can not only rewrite the past — he can, apparently, predict the future.
Today in celebrity news: Ryan Seacrest was seen with a new lady, Amanda Bynes has a terrible friend, and Charlie Sheen is mad.
The former Florida governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate said at a conference on Friday that immigration reform would help America: "Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population." But this is why he's really off-key.
We knew Snowden had new information about hacking, but new reports today suggest that he has targets — and that they may affect diplomatic relations as the leaker seeks to put off extradition back home.
Syria is being compared to a lot of things — Kosovo, Rwanda, Libya, Iraq — and the Obama administration is divided over which lessons should apply. Here's what the president will and will not do next.
A day after issuing ominous threats to protesters in Istanbul, the Turkish government appears to have worked out a compromise that could send everyone home without more of a fight.
In a move as fiendishly clever as it is galling, Microsoft tells the U.S. government about bugs in its notoriously buggy software before it fixes them so that intelligence agencies can use the vulnerabilities for the purposes of cyberspying. And that's just one of the new revelations that the tech world is in bed espionage agencies.
Zack Snyder's reboot lets down all the little kids who grew on up on Christopher Reeve's Superman.
After& Man of Steel turned out to be such a disappointment, America could use a good old-fashioned summer movie that is actually good. And, well, here's something to get even more excited about: Neill Blomkamp's Elysium looks better than ever in its new trailer.
The Obamas' vacation could cost taxpayers in the vicinity of $100 million for hundreds of Secret Service agents, 14 bulletproof limos, and much, much more, but there is more important outrage: We're not even going to get another awesome picture of a president on safari!
What happens to the unpaid intern that sues their former employer? Good news for the two former underpaid Condé Nast magazine slaves who just filed a suit: It turns out filing a very high profile lawsuit against one of the biggest names in the industry doesn't ruin your career — depending on exactly what kind of professional life you want, that is.
For the first night since starting his tenure as temporary Daily Show anchor, John Oliver moved away from the topic of the NSA scandal to address gay rights across the world. There was old news.
Use your time on the beach and stuck in traffic this summer getting an early jump on the fall movie season by reading the source material for all the literary adaptations coming out in the Serious Movie months. That way you can be the smug person who says "Well, that's not how it happens in the book..." all autumn long!
An investigation by the Associated Press has found that a 94-year-old man who moved to the United States in 1949 was actually the commander of Nazi SS-led unit during World War II.
After the White House stepped out, officials in Moscow said Friday they've seen the evidence the U.S. says is proof that Syria has used chemical weapons, but it's not going to be enough to get the Russians to turn their back on their man.
Yahoo, one of the companies named as part of the NSA's PRISM data collection program, didn't go quietly, according to a New York Times scoop posted late Thursday
Have faith, Supreme Court rabble-rousers: the highest bench in the United States remains open to protests, speeches, demonstrations, and vigils. You may have to follow a few ground rules, though.
Today in show business news: Ethan Hawke lands one of the biggest roles, Angelina Jolie is casting her next movie, and Wes Bentley's comeback continues.
There was a big storm set to attack the East Coast heading into this weekend, and it hit Washington, D.C. — and hit hard — until it didn't. By Thursday evening the ominous impressionist-grey skies over the nation's capital had turned yesterday's-news blue, leaving behind only photo evidence and a windswept, powerless streak of a so-called "derecho" that never quite was.
We expect some big revelations from Shane Salerno's Salinger documentary. A new trailer for the film doesn't quite tell us what those are, but with a focus on topics like the mystery of why Salinger stopped publishing, his time in World War II, and his private relationships, it does portend big things.
Based on multiple media reports, all citing unnamed officials, the Obama administration has decided to start supplying some Syrian rebel groups with arms and ammunition.
When the world learned that the would-be lieutenant governor had written that yoga could leave you vulnerable to Satan, it seemed the world finally had a brave leader who would take a stand against hideous yoga fashion and smelly hot studios and Lululemon princesses. But no. An unusual 45-minute press conference revealed all.
The intrepid self-proclaimed sex savants at Cosmopolitan took a subtle dig at the Internet netizens at Reddit by insinuating in a recent listicle that the "ultra-nerds" there have no idea how to handle sexy times with a woman. That went over about as well as you might have expected. But is Cosmo really that much better at giving sex advice than your neighborhood Redditor? Play our fun interactive game and find out.
Her characters in this week's This Is the End and The Bling Ring are not exactly what we've come to expect from the Harry Potter star. But Emma Watson is impossible to pin down — now 23, she's growing up by going back to her fantasy roots, with a new project billed as a female Game of Thrones.
If a federal court determines that the NYPD systematically violated the civil rights of residents through its stop-and-frisk behavior — which the court probably will — the Department of Justice may provide a monitor for oversight. Bloomberg is mad about it, to which there is only one reasonable response: Get over it.
Following the big Black Swan unpaid intern win yesterday, former unpaid laborers at Condé Nast have sued the magazine publisher for back wages.
The pitbull and her "indispensable" network had a bad breakup, but great news, guys! They're getting back together! Starting Monday! Because Sarah Palin can't stay famous without Fox.
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