Vanessa Taylor

Athletes are increasingly being hospitalized — or worse — from trying to cut weight. Will combat sports ever stop it?

“I know they’re going to take the data anyway. So I’m going to profit off of it because everybody else is already doing it.”

At the intersection of Heather Heyer Way and Water Street, I enter an unofficial memorial.

Where the hell is Lee now?

After the January 6 insurrection, a CBS News analysis found that at least 81 of the over 700 individuals charged in relation to the attack were current and former armed service members.

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Privatized adoption is the “commodification of children,” one adoptee told Mic.
Ever since the Supreme Court made abortion access a federally protected right in 1973, conservatives have attacked Roe v. Wade. Narrative control has been key to anti-abortion movements, including the re-defining of its supporters as “pro-life.” Anti-abortion activists paint themselves as “saving” kids, and they frame privatized adoption as abortion’s ethical alternative. But as Roe teeters on the edge, adoptees a...

In 48 hours, law enforcement’s story about what happened in Uvalde has unraveled. What’s left is a mess of incompetence and horror.

When the pandemic hit and anti-Asian attacks spiked, Jess Ng was uniquely positioned to help protect her fellow New Yorkers.

"IT’S TIME TO PUT DOWN THE PUSSY HATS AND PICK UP THE PITCHFORKS."

"Nothing beats getting to witness internet history by just showing up."

The quest to save the planet doesn’t end when your life does.

One meal laid the foundation for Green Muslims, an organization committed to seeing “Muslims living in the environmental spirit of Islam, striving towards connection with nature and environmental stewardship.”

"Putin, we will never forgive you for this.”

The Black Film Archive now hosts over 200 films, all with "something significant to say about the Black experience."