Новости за 17.03.2023

College students are the same everywhere: If there are famous people on campus—or people pretending to be famous people—it will be a big deal. And this week, that’s been the case at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where students are giddy over the filming of the sixth and final season of The Crown on their…

It was a long week. What week isn’t? In the realm of pop culture, it started with the Oscars Sunday night: Beautiful people won awards, as did adorable nerds. If you’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel for something to do this weekend, watch literally any of those movies. It’s never too late to have an opinion…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has been open to “adding some type of constitutional protection for life” (that is, against a woman’s right to choose) since at least 2012, when he was first running for Congress. “I’ve basically said, the Constitution leaves the matter of abortion to the states...Now, if you want to talk…

As young people across the country ponder ditching birth control pills—and tradwife TikTokers try to convince them the “rhythm” method is a safe alternative (it’s not)—it seems an unlikely spokesman has emerged to…attempt to take one for the team. Snip, snip hooray?

In 2021, maternal mortality rates hit their highest level since 1965, according to new data released Thursday. And that’s before Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022; before a woman was forced to bring her clotted blood to a hospital to prove she needed an abortion; before doctors in Texas sent a woman home, …

Celebrity breakups don’t often faze me anymore, but I will admit: I’d be fairly devastated if Tom Holland and Zendaya split at this point—if for no other reason than Tom Holland’s pants. Allow me to explain.

Iranian authorities show no signs of stopping their punishment of the young people at the heart of ongoing demonstrations in the country. As Vice World News reported, five Iranian girls were arrested last week for making a TikTok of themselves dancing to Rema and Gomez’s song, “Clam Down,” which went viral earlier…

Courtney Love has lent her intellect, which has the fury and speed of Taz, to an op-ed in the Guardian about gender and racial disparity in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees. The piece, “Why are women so marginalized by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?,” is based on the premise that, like most gates, white men have a…

The Earth is round, the Pope is Catholic, and Gwyneth Paltrow is broadcasting an ultra low-calorie diet that dietitians are skeptical of. On the podcast The Art of Being Well earlier this week, Paltrow shared that when she isn’t intermittently fasting, her main food groups are bone broth and vegetables, a diet…

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Paris Hilton is an animal—or at least, that is often how she views herself retrospectively in her new book, Paris: The Memoir. Hungover the morning after her 21st birthday and en route to skydiving, she “trembled like a little wet dog.” She gets quiet when she’s scared, “like a little rabbit going purely on instinct.”…

About a month ago, as I sat in my home watching the Grammys and the camera panned to Ben Affleck and his wife, Jennifer Lopez, I momentarily feared I was watching a hostage video: Affleck appeared visibly miserable, not once, but pretty much every time he and Lopez appeared onscreen—to the extent that his dour…