Dan Clarendon

Every single Grey’s Anatomy episode shares its name with a song title—even “1-800-799-7233,” the episode named after the National Domestic Violence Hotline. So with that in mind, we’ve combed the current Billboard Hot 100 for pop hits that could be the namesakes for Season 17 episodes, and we’ve even dreamt up loglines for these imagined episodes. (Don’t worry—we’re not going anywhere near “WAP.”)

This summer, amid outcry over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor — along with countless instances of police brutality — nearly 300 customized their jerseys with the phrases “Black Lives Matter,” “Say Their Names,” and other statements decrying the United States’ rampant racism. If you’ve seen Jabari Parker, Anthony Tolliver, or Andre Iguodala, though, you may have wondered about these NBA stars’ meaning of their “ Group Economics ” jerseys.

Critical race theory — or CRT, for short — trended on Twitter on Saturday, Sept. 5, as users reacted to the news that President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop funding trainings on both CRT and white privilege. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought revealed the decision one day earlier in a memo to the heads of executive departments and agencies, calling these trainings “divisive, anti-American propaganda.”

LGBTQ+ representation in young adult literature is still on the rise, and this year’s crop of YA books shows signs the industry may finally be diversifying. Along with stories of white, cisgender teens are tales in which transgender, nonbinary, and intersex youth are the heroes and queer people of color get the spotlight.

Amid concerns about mail-in voting for the 2020 presidential election, the United States Postal Service (USPS) appears to be working on a blockchain-based voting system using a combination of traditional mail and machine-readable code. Can blockchain really be used for voting? Critics aren’t so sure.

The original Law & Order spawned one of the most successful franchises in American TV history, and yet Fox and CBS both passed on the series before NBC gave it the green light and started airing the show 30 years ago, on September 13, 1990. To celebrate the show's anniversary, TV Insider revisits key moments from its history.

The Television Academy recently announced their nominees for the 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, spotlighting performers in categories such as Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Lead Actress in a Drama Series… and upholding a seven-decade tradition of gendered divisions that select other Hollywood award shows have already left behind.

In the 20 years since her tumultuous coming-out and sitcom cancellation, Ellen DeGeneres launched a second act as a successful talk show host, voiced a beloved blue tang fish for Disney, racked up dozens of Daytime Emmy Awards, and generally avoided drama. But controversy and scandal caught up to her in recent months...

Cop shows, cop shows, whatcha gonna do? After the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks—and amid the calls to defund police departments—the cop reality TV genre may have finally fallen out of favor.

On March 13, the American College of Surgeons recommended hospitals across the country minimize, postpone, or cancel all scheduled elective surgeries because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As many hospitals took that advice and shed certain procedures from the books, many transgender people were left with devastating setbacks as gender-affirming surgeries were canceled or indefinitely postponed as the question of which procedures are “elective” looms.

The late pulp author H.P. Lovecraft has countless fans across the world, many of are whom conflicted in their fandom. After all, Lovecraft is one of the biggest names in horror fiction, but the man espoused virulent racism. And the upcoming HBO drama Lovecraft Country — due to premiere in August — holds both those realities in its allegorical premise.

Perhaps not everyone was sorry to see Friends leave Netflix in December. The blockbuster 1990s NBC sitcom—which starred Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, and Matthew Perry—has been a lightning rod of criticism in the past few years as new, woke generations call out the jokes they find offensive.

After declaring the violence epidemic against transgender people a “myth,” journalist and self-described “gay conservative” Chad Felix Greene is now attacking the idea of the use of “they” as a singular pronoun and criticizing the APA for endorsing the usage.

This Internet was abuzz this week that the news that Kristen Stewart’s character in the new big-screen reboot of Charlie’s Angels is “definitely gay.” How will viewers know that secret agent Sabina prefers the company of women? Apparently, there’s a “little moment” in the film. Elizabeth Banks, writer, director, and star of the film, tells PrideSource: So much of the time, “little moments” of LGBTQ visibility are all fans get. Think of Josh Gad’s “exclusively gay” LeFou sharing a two-second da

Color photography was developed, so to speak, with a definite bias toward lighter skin — a reality cinematographer Ava Berkofsky sought to overcome when she was hired to light season 2 of the HBO comedy Insecure.