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Pope Francis kisses a baby Jesus statue as he leads midnight Christmas Mass at the Vatican in 2014. (European Pressphoto Agency) Last week, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly had good news for his viewers — the war on Christmas had finally ended. “We won!” O’Reilly declared. What were O’Reilly’s metrics for measuring this great victory over the…
.entry-header Swimmer Ryan Lochte poses for a photo with his gold medal on the Today-show set on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 12, 2016. Harry How/Getty Images We’d like to welcome you to the annual Wypipo Awards. For those of you attending for the first time, these awards are not focused on…
Don’t stop your dog from barking at them. Don’t take their money. If you’re making coffee for them, make it wrong. Last week, Donald Trump was elected president by the United States. But he wasn’t elected by New Yorkers. In his hometown, Trump has for years been regarded as a clown—a tabloid regular, a Howard…
In a humongous publication fail, Blackhair magazine mistakenly featured a white model on its December/January cover. Fam. The model in question, Emily Bador, who’s white, pointed the error out in an Instagram post, in which she apologized for the shoot and said she had no idea the photo—which she believes was taken three or four…
Only two more weeks to endure guys Ah, what a year it’s been. What a year it’s been for women! We got more medals than ever before at the Olympics, we ended up with a surprise woman Prime Minister and, equally surprisingly, no female POTUS. We made huge medical advances towards addressing the gender imbalance…
Members of the secret Facebook group Pantsuit Nation gathered in front of the White House to take pictures and show support on Election Day for Hillary Clinton. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times When Libby Chamberlain, the creator of the pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook group Pantsuit Nation, announced this week that she plans to publish a…
Emma Stone is arguably one of the more in-demand and well-known actresses of our times, on par with Jennifer Lawrence and others of her ilk. You’d think that at this point in her career, directors working with her at this stage would take what she had to say seriously. I am very sorry to report…
With the release of Overwatch’s holiday comic, gamers saw the game’s first openly gay character: Tracer. Many of us here at Kotaku, an Overwatch fansite, took time to sit down and reflect on how Blizzard has treated the topic of diversity in our favorite team based shooter. Update—5:40 p.m.: Shortly after publication, Blizzard sent Kotaku…
Yesterday, Blizzard released an Overwatch comic for the winter holidays that revealed something important about the character Tracer: she doesn’t need to wear her chronal accelerator at all times! Oh, also she has a girlfriend. If you haven’t read the comic, here’s a brief recap: If you’re still not getting it, Tumblr user greatlordfluffernutter has…
On March 15, 2002, 15 Saudi girls burned to death inside their school in Mecca. They were not trapped by fallen debris, or unaccounted for by firefighters. The mutaween, Saudi Arabia’s religious police, would not allow the girls to leave their burning school because they were not covering their hair or wearing their abayas. The…