Two former Disney employees are suing Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, accusing the company of colluding with a pair of global consulting companies to replace them with foreign workers—who the outgoing employees had to then train.

Writing in the Washington Post, President Obama has announced a ban on the use of solitary confinement for juveniles and as a punishment for low-level infractions.

“This blizzard was bad. At least you didn’t spend it inside a dead buffalo.” Fair enough.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, 13 Hours star John Krasinski has expressed his disappointment at the American political class’ reception of his latest film. “I think it’s a shame that a movie like this would be used so much as a political football,” he said. Oh?

In a federal civil rights lawsuit against two towns in Arizona and Utah, prosecutors allege that local officials vowed loyalty to Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, even as he was charged with arranging marriages between girls and older men.

Up until just about today, the outpouring of reporting from Flint, Mich. had forgotten the stories of the people it’s easiest to forget: undocumented immigrants. But this afternoon, several articles were published within hours of each other focusing on the specific plight faced by the undocumented in Flint.

According to a new lawsuit, production assistants working for a number of companies including Paramount, Nickelodeon and Regency were forced to go to the bathroom inside their cars thanks to their strict—and low-paying—job requirements.

In what some Planned Parenthood detractors will surely decry as a
miscarriage of justice, a grand jury charged with investigating whether the group sold fetal tissue has instead opted to indict the people who filmed the undercover videos that launched the investigation in the first place.

Two-time Academy Awards nominee Ian McKellen has spoken out about the lack of diversity in the film industry, as it relates to being acknowledged by the Oscars (and landing the kind of roles that could yield gold-plated glory). “The fact that black people feel underrepresented in studio movies and big movies…well, it’s what women thought for a long time,” he said in an interview with the U.K.’s Press Association. “It’s what gay people like myself still think. And it’s a legitimate complaint and the Oscars has become the focus of those worries. So I sympathize.”

Over the weekend, a group of street artists took advantage of New York’s desolate, snow-caked roads in order to paint a crude memorial honoring David Bowie. Unfortunately, the tribute is bad and makes no sense.

Three hundred and sixty-six days ago, Kristin Cavallari began writing her debut memoir Balancing in Heels (formerly known as Balancing on Heels—Kristin’s first choice of title). For over a year we have waited to read the secrets hidden in Kristin’s scrolls, and today some of those recipes have finally been revealed. Amazon.com has released over 50 pages of Kristin’s book.

On Friday, xoJane published a most necessary confession. The women’s site that brings you the “It Happened To Me” first-person essay series (“It Happened To Me: There Are No Black People In My Yoga Classes And I’m Suddenly Feeling Uncomfortable With It,” “It Happened To Me: My Gynecologist Found a Ball of Cat Hair in My Vagina,” “It Happened To Me: I Live With My Abuser,” which the site fucked up royally by posting the name of the writer) ran a piece by xoJane editor Amber Rambharose that reads like an explainer of the confession industry in which xoJane traffics. “Editors Don’t Cry in the Office — I Still Can’t Believe I Did Last Night” isn’t exactly a warts-and-all self-exposé, but a fine piece of meta-journalism that captures the difficulty of having to perform your life in front of strangers when you aren’t quite comfortable with doing so.

In 1990, Donald Trump’s marriage to a beautiful blonde model was nearing its end, and his marriage to a different beautiful blonde model was just about to bloom. The two ladies (Ivana Trump and Marla Maples, respectively) allegedly became aware of this on the scenic slopes of Aspen, where they got into a verbal—or, depending on who you ask, physical—confrontation over the rotting jack-o-lantern real estate tycoon himself.

Since the San Bernardino massacre, you’d be forgiven for believing the American homeland is under siege by men planning to kill you in the name of ISIS, one of the very few things everyone alive can agree on fearing together. But how many scary men doing scary things in America have any actual connection to the Islamic State?

As the country attempts to untangle exactly who is to blame for the residents of Flint, Mich. being forced to use lead-poisoned water for well over a year, the Michigan ACLU has dug up a little bit of evidence that at least absolves one important person.

Anyone serving a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole for a crime they committed as a juvenile has a right to challenge their punishment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today. The decision will give roughly 1,000 inmates a shot at reducing their terms, according to NBC News.

Racial inequality and economic inequality are not synonyms, but they are as closely linked as it is possible for two things to be. They are the bread and butter of American problems.

A University of Missouri professor caught on camera demanding “muscle” to prevent a student reporter from covering a campus protest has been formally charged with assault, an important reminder that although you can hate the press, you cannot express that hatred physically.

Calumet County prosecutor Ken Kratz got the Making a Murderer conviction but he still wanted more, according to a smarmy letter he sent last year informing Steven Avery he’d be “willing” to write a book about the trial, if Avery would just confess to him, and only him.

The staff of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress has decided to unionize, just months after employees at the Center’s news site, ThinkProgress, unionized themselves. Whole lotta unionizing these days.