Jess Herbst was not expecting to become the first openly transgender mayor in Texas—at least not yet.But when the previous mayor of the tiny 673-person town of New Hope passed away from a heart attack last May, she had already quietly undergone a ...

As far as journalistic integrity goes, Piers Morgan is more bankrupt than MC Hammer shooting craps at Trump Castle.The British blowhard, who has failed upwards his entire career, was found to be in violation of the Code of Conduct for business jou...

Dark Night is fascinated by the phenomena of domestic mass shootings, but it’s less an act of investigation than one of imagination.Writer/director Tim Sutton’s third feature follows in the footsteps of his prior two works, 2012’s Pavilion and 201...

Tolstoy famously wrote that while “happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same can be said for really bad movies. There’s no precise formula for a film that’s must-see in spite of itself. Poor acting, ap...

Lena Dunham may be riding high professionally, with the much-anticipated final season of HBO’s Girls set to premiere this Sunday. But on a personal level, she has not been doing well in the three months since Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in t...

ROME—Sinister things are known to happen deep in the deep web, that mysterious internet dark space that remains hidden from search engines and traditional browsers. It’s a haven for deviant and high-risk behavior, and it is a place where terrorist...

The central contradiction in Donald Trump’s foreign policy, so far as a policy can be divined, has been reconciling his love and hatred for two American enemies. The love, of course, is for Vladimir Putin; a “killer,” sure, but then again, who isn...

By Gary Ferguson, Douglas Huntly Gordon Distinguished Professor of French, University of VirginiaIn the late 16th century, the famous French essayist Michel de Montaigne wrote about two marriages between people of the same sex. The first involved ...

MOSCOW—An icy wind blew over the pails filled with flowers and into the faces of sleepy volunteers guarding the improvised memorial to murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. The hands on the giant clock on the Kremlin’s tower crept to 23:31 (11...

Jess Herbst was not expecting to become the first openly transgender mayor in Texas—at least not yet.But when the previous mayor of the tiny 673-person town of New Hope passed away from a heart attack last May, she had already quietly undergone a ...

A Wisconsin high-school principal is accused of intimidating an alleged rape victim who was slated to testify against her boyfriend.Prosecutors say Valencia Carthen, 42, of Milwaukee, visited the unnamed accuser each week, pushing her to recant he...

Reddit, the enormous online community-run forum, announced on Wednesday night that it was banning the white nationalist subreddit r/altright, due to “posting of personal information,” otherwise known as doxxing.“Reddit is the proud home to some of...

Imagine what it would be like to be fully conscious and aware of your surroundings, but trapped inside a paralyzed body, not only unable to move, but unable to communicate in any way, for the rest of your life. Unable to express feelings, thoughts...

Last week saw the largest demonstrations for women’s rights in human history. And yesterday saw the annual the March for Life in Washington, D.C., which describes itself as opposing “the greatest human rights violation of our time, legal abortion ...

In Greek mythology, Prometheus taught man how to farm. But when he gave man fire, the gods felt he had gone too far. And so as punishment, Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock where every day an eagle would come and eat his liver, which would regrow ...

Supreme Court nominee Neil M. Gorsuch might not be the only Donald Trump admirer who’s disheartened and demoralized by the president’s recent behavior.Internet rabble-rouser Matt Drudge—who last year essentially put his influential Drudgereport.co...

There’s been some grumbling on Planet Fashion that the New York shows aren’t as fancy, creative, and over-the-top fabulous as their European counterparts, with big-name New York tickets like Proenza Schouler and Rodarte decamping to Paris this sea...

La Perla by Brea TremblayI trekked through piles of freezing slush to get to Thursday night’s La Perla show. I turned my face away from the bitter wind off New York’s Hudson River, and I made the same small talk everyone else was making.“This weat...

Do you fancy an evening spent among boxes and boxes of odds-and-ends, a theater full of ephemera and bits and pieces? When you arrive at Geoff Sobelle’s brilliant and strange The Object Lesson at New York Theatre Workshop, you are bidden to go ins...