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We’re a few days into 2021, and it looks like Kim Kardashian, bless her, plans to follow her compass in a new direction this year: away from West. According to a new Page Six report, which hasn’t yet been confirmed elsewhere (TMZ disagrees, for example), Kardashian and her husband of seven years, rapper and sorta former presidential candidate Kanye West, will be divorcing in the near future. Sources in the article said the two have grown apart, and that Kim in particular has had enough of K...

Democrats needed to sweep both of Tuesday’s Senate runoffs in Georgia, the final elections of the 2020 cycle, in order to take control of the Senate upon Joe Biden’s inauguration. By late Tuesday night, with roughly 97 percent of the vote counted, Democrat Raphael Warnock was leading incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler by about 35,000 votes in the special election runoff while Republican David Perdue and Jon Ossoff were in an essential tie. With most of the remaining votes to be counted centraliz...

As President Donald Trump’s supporters gathered in D.C. on Wednesday morning for the Save America March, the mood was largely upbeat—except on one subject. “The two Republican candidates were way ahead last night, and then in the middle of the night, more Democrat votes come in. So the same crap that went on in the presidential election,” said Frank from Pennsylvania, sounding deflated from behind his Keep America Great mask. Democrat Raphael Warnock had been declared the winner in his ...

If only we would invest as much in distributing the vaccine as we did in making it.

The nation’s capital was the site of violent clashes on Tuesday as pro-Trump protesters took to the streets on the eve of Congress’ vote to certify the Electoral College votes and Joe Biden’s victory. Thousands of Trump supporters are gathering in D.C. to march for the president’s last-ditch effort to overturn the 2020 election. The city has been preparing for mass upheaval by increasing police presence and mobilizing the National Guard, and officials are warning residents to stay away ...

When I first learned on New Year’s Eve that MF DOOM had died at age 49 (and had in fact died on Oct. 31), my first response was disbelief. Not in a figurative, “I can’t believe he’s really gone” way, but in the literal sense that I couldn’t completely believe he was really gone. MF DOOM was hip-hop’s greatest supervillain, a virtuoso of mystery and subterfuge: What would be more diabolically DOOM than faking his own death? Even now, days later, part of me holds on to hope that som...

Dear Care and Feeding, How do I not become a nag? I feel like a huge percentage of my interactions with my kids are asking the same questions over and over and over—have you brushed your hair today? Have you cleared the table I’ve asked you 45 times to clear? Have you finished your assignments? Really? If I check them, will they be done? Advertisement I love spending time with my kids. I want to spend my time with them in positive ways, but also … the same things have to actually get done...

Potential U.S. Sen.–elect Jon Ossoff is only 33 years old. For comparison, the youngest sitting senator is Republican Josh Hawley, at 41; the body’s youngest Democrat is Kyrsten Sinema, at 44. That means Ossoff may soon be the first millennial senator. Those of us around his age might have seen his possibly imminent ascent to the upper house of Congress as a condemnation of our own lives and accomplishments. For instance, I am a year older than Ossoff, and in recent days, I have been feelin...

Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock has defeated incumbent Kelly Loeffler in one of the two Georgia runoffs Tuesday, leaving control of the Senate to the race between Jon Ossoff and incumbent Republican David Perdue. The Associated Press called the Warnock-Loeffler race around 2 a.m., as Warnock’s lead grew to more than 40,000 votes, or .5 precent, with votes from the Atlanta area, a Democratic stronghold, still to be counted. By 5 a.m., with 98 percent of the vote in the books, Warnock’s...

The vice president expressed his support after 11 Senate Republicans said they would vote against certifying electors from certain states.