I've Tried More Than a Dozen Consumable CBD Products. This Is the Only One I Feel Every Time

Homeostasis is that rare condition in which you are at perfect balance; you are in homeostatic balance when you are calm, alert, well-rested, free...

Trump Replacing Ginsburg Isn’t a Crime Against Democracy. It’s How Democracy Works.

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has raised the stakes for 2020, as if they needed raising.  Donald Trump is urging senate...

The Women DJs Exposing EDM’s Sexism Epidemic

When Jennifer Lee, better known as TOKiMONSTA, started DJing, there was one thing she heard whispered about her again and again: that she hadn’t...

2 Dead, 14 Wounded in Mass Shooting at Rochester Party

The city of Rochester, New York, was rocked early Saturday by a mass shooting at a house party that left two young people dead and 14 wounded....

Believe It or Not: I Actually Want to Wear This Apron

Cooking more means one thing: more dirty clothes. I’m not exactly a messy cooker or messy eater—things just happen. I feel like most of these...

‘RBG’ Directors Recall How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wanted to Be Remembered

When Betsy West and Julie Cohen began putting together their 2018 Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary, RBG, they knew they would never get to fit in...

GOP Laughs at Dems’ Scorched Earth Threats as Supreme Court Battle Begins

Democrats—livid and galvanized by the GOP’s confirm-at-all costs approach to the new U.S. Supreme Court vacancy—have spent the last 24 hours...

Suspected Killer Posted Threats on Facebook Minutes Before Arizona Slaying

Arizona police are investigating a tragic, perplexing attack that detectives say was unprovoked: 68-year-old Joan Sirhan was leaving her...

U.S. Admits That ‘Putin’s Favorite Congressman’ Offered Pardon to Assange If He Covered Up Russia Links

LONDON—Lawyers representing the United States at Julian Assange’s extradition trial in Britain have accepted the claim that the WikiLeaks founder...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Outsider’s Champion, Has Died at 87

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court justice, trailblazing feminist, and the closest thing to a folk hero the high court has ever seen, has died at...

Bill Maher and Jane Fonda React to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death in Real Time

On Friday night, the news broke: Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away at the age of 87. The Brooklyn native, who’d served on the Supreme Court...

ICE Hysterectomy Doctor Wasn’t Even a Board-Certified OB-GYN

The doctor at the center of a scandal over unwanted hysterectomies at an immigrant detention facility in Georgia is not a board certified OB-GYN,...

How High-End Restaurants, Bars and Hotels Are Reinventing Themselves to Reopen in the Pandemic

For the planet’s bars, restaurants and hotels, the pandemic has been a brutal, sometimes terminal experience. The industry journal, Restaurant...

De Blasio Botches His Own Ego-Stroking School Reopening

Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York has further proven that ego can make even the most strident progressive as blind as President Trump is to his own...

Trump Did Something Great This Week. So Where’s the Credit?

Donald Trump did something pretty amazing this week: He brokered a Middle East peace deal that normalized relations between Israel and two Arab...

Best New Launches from Tan France, Saucony, and More

New Kids on the Block helps you navigate all the new and exciting launches from our favorite brands, all in one place. Etsy x Tan France :...

How the Trump Campaign Lit a Billion Dollars on Fire

The Trump campaign raised more cash than just about any campaign in history—and it’s still broke, pulling TV ads in big states and slowing down...

I Didn’t Know Having Something Framed Could Be This Simple

Whenever I’m decorating a space, the last thing to go up on the walls is art. This is for two reasons, I think. First, it’s hard to know what...

This Little Box Hides Ugly Cables In Plain Sight

Do you ever feel like there are just cables all over your home? They are definitely an eyesore, unfortunately, yet an essential part of life....

The Best Leather Tote Bags That Will Carry Your Laptop and So Much More

When it comes to bags, I always say bigger is better. I throw basically anything I could ever need into my daily work bag: extra shoes, three...

This Is How Trump Perverted the Power of Positive Thinking

“We have it totally under control,” Donald Trump said on January 22, regarding the coronavirus. “It’s going to be just fine,” he prophesied....

Trumpworld Martial-Law Talk Might Be More Than Talk Soon

Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that as the election grows closer, Donald Trump’s allies and sycophants are trying to shop a low-key civil war...

How Dancing—In the Moonlight—Has Helped Keep Me Sane During Lockdown

Even before the pandemic, with the exception of a pair of weekly classes I taught at NYU, I spent most days working in my apartment. I’m a writer;...

Biden Goes Full Populist in Closing Weeks

The day after Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden test-ran a new populist phrase about income inequality in a parking lot set up for a town...

Inside the Hell of Israel’s Second Lockdown

Israelis just want to fly away. The atmosphere was so grim as the nation entered a coronavirus lockdown on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New...

Trump Finally Admits Many Americans Won’t Get Vaccine Until April

President Trump on Friday said that the U.S. expects to have enough coronavirus vaccines for every American by April. “We’ll have manufactured...

Joe Arpaio Gets Brutally Embarrassed by Colbert’s ‘Tooning Out the News’

You would think that after Joe Arpaio got duped into accepting a hypothetical blowjob from Donald Trump while unboxing children’s toys with Sacha...

There’ll Be Hell to Pay as Republican Hypocrites Race to Replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg

There’s a Jewish tradition that someone who dies on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, must have been a tzaddik, a righteous person. After all,...

Will Kamala Complete Asian Americans’ Flip From Red to Blue?

By John A. Tures, The Conversation Asian Americans used to be a reliable Republican voting bloc. But long before Kamala Harris, who is Indian...

Election Violence Could Arrive Well Before November

Matthew Egler appeared unwell. In the hours leading up to July 24, he was emailing Arizona officials, claiming to have an intimate relationship...

Cops Find 200 ‘Irreplaceable’ Books—Including Originals by Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton—Buried in Romania

ROME—For the last three years, police in the U.K., Italy, and Romania have been trying to figure out what three men convicted of stealing $3.2...

Women’s Rights Crusader, Supreme Court Powerhouse, Meme Queen: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Incredible Life

What the Hell Is Going to Happen With Ski Season?

America’s two largest ski conglomerates have drawn their line in the sand. While 2020 has been a banner year for corporate uncertainty, not a...

Royal Family ‘Furious’ With Harry and Meghan over Netflix Deal. ‘They Are in Bed With the Enemy.’

If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to...

CDC Issues Yet Another Round of Guidance on COVID-19 Testing

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday updated its coronavirus testing guidelines to say that individuals who do not present with...

Let the Oscar Race Begin!: The Best of TIFF 2020

This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the...

This Gov’s Mask Mandate Can Only Do So Much to Stop COVID

After six months of leading his state through the pandemic, Gov. Andy Beshear has found himself in the position of having done many of the right...

‘The Great Pottery Throw Down’ Is Sadly No ‘Great British Bake Off’

Is the latest British cute-reality-TV import, The Great Pottery Throw Down, for me? I thought so—I knit, do a bit of woodworking, live in a...

Maitland Ward: How We Made the First Big Porn Movie of the COVID Era

There’s a belief that Hollywood—and more specifically porn—is in the throes of chaos and headed for complete disaster at the moment. COVID has...

Is Netflix’s ‘Ratched’ Really Worth Your Time? 

This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the...

Italy's Tourism Bust Leads to Real Estate Boom

ROME—There is something particularly telling about the “for sale” advertisements on Italy's real estate websites these days. Rather than the...

‘Residue’ Shows the Human Toll of White Gentrifiers Invading Black Neighborhoods

R esidue, the very personal feature film debut by Merawi Gerima, is patient but not slow. The film, which arrived this week to streaming platforms...

Here’s How to Stop Mitch and Trump From Replacing RBG

First of all, before we get to the politics: Thank heaven for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She is truly one of the great 10 or 20 Americans of the last 40...

Chris Wallace Shuts Down Fox News Host Wondering if Biden Puts ‘Too Much Focus’ on COVID

Is Joe Biden too focused on the global pandemic that has killed 200,000 Americans under his political opponent’s watch? That’s the question that...

Kamala Harris Loves Her Timberlands. As a Black Woman, I Share Her Devotion

Timberland boots have come to be an emblem of the Black community, and this week—after a much-buzzed-about photograph of her stepping off a plane...

‘We’re Not Scared’: Tens of Thousands of Motorcyclists Pack Lake of the Ozarks for Bike Rally

Along the Bagnell Dam Strip in the heart of the Lake of the Ozarks, thousands of motorcycles are tightly parked in the middle of a two-lane...

Mitch Ready to Steamroll Dems on Ginsburg Replacement

On Feb. 13, 2016, then-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead in a ranch bedroom in Texas. It was 268 days before the November...

In Trump’s Shithole America, 200,000 Dead Means ‘We Did a Good Job’

Sometime soon—this weekend, or next week, but possibly by tonight—we’ll cross the dark threshold of 200,000 dead from COVID.   For those who...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, AKA The Notorious RBG, Was a Pop Icon Who Truly Made a Big Difference

Was there anything that wasn’t cool about Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Even the late Supreme Court justice’s nickname—Notorious RBG—has a cool...

The NRA and the Trump Campaign Appear to Be Flouting Election Laws. Again.

In a recent ad bankrolled by the National Rifle Association, two masked men chase a woman through a parking lot to her gray sedan. She locks the...

Exhausted House Dems: Only Voters Can Stop Trump Now

With less than 50 days to go until the election, exhausted House Democrats—staring down fresh oversight challenges from a president who just keeps...

All Hell Breaks Loose on ‘The View’ After Guest Brings Up Joy’s Blackface Incident

Friday’s broadcast of The View went completely off the rails when a Black GOP congressional candidate brought up host Joy Behar’s infamous...

‘A Shock. A Sadness. A Great Loss:’ Tributes to Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pour in From Celebs, Politicians

In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death on Friday, tributes came pouring in from politicians, celebrities, and just about...

Frederick Wiseman’s ‘City Hall’ Will Teach You How Local Politics Really Works

Frederick Wiseman is American cinema’s foremost sociological auteur, a chronicler of the myriad civic institutions and organizations that—in the...

Seth Meyers Explodes on Trump for Pinning Coronavirus Deaths on Blue States

“Blue states had tremendous death rates,” President Trump declared this week. “If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I...

Billionaire King of Thailand Has 38 Jets, Helicopters and Other Aircraft in Private Royal Fleet, Activists Say

The billionaire king of Thailand, long accused of profligacy and extravagance, is alleged to have built up an extraordinary fleet of 38 jets and...

This New COVID-19 Therapy Could Keep Pace with an Evolving Threat

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are developing a novel coronavirus therapy that they believe has several advantages...

‘Cheer’ Star Jerry Harris Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

High-profile cheerleader Jerry Harris has been arrested and charged with production of child pornography, according to local media reports. Harris,...

‘Unpregnant’ and the Cathartic Beauty of the Hollywood Abortion-Comedy

In the 1966 romantic dramedy Alfie, a young Michael Caine (as the “cockney Casanova” himself) sits in an armchair in his apartment, staring...

What’s Next for Bars?

The coronavirus pandemic has managed to affect nearly every facet of life in America. Bars are certainly not exempt and the industry will find...

Breonna Taylor’s Family Gets a Settlement—but Not Justice

Yes, $12 million (minus the customary 30 to 40 percent in attorneys fees) is a lot of money. Breonna Taylor’s family members are now instant...

Tucker Agrees That George Soros ‘Wants to Watch America Burn’: He’s ‘Getting a Return on His Money’

Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed Thursday night that billionaire philanthropist George Soros—a frequent target of anti-Semitic tropes from...

Fox News Host Apologizes for Cutting Off Gingrich’s George Soros Rant

Fox News host Harris Faulkner apologized on Thursday to Newt Gingrich for an on-air incident the day prior in which multiple hosts interrupted the...

CNN Host Goes Off on Fox News for Spreading COVID ‘Misinformation’

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar on Thursday afternoon tore into rival cable-news network Fox News for misinforming the public and President Donald Trump...

Satellite Hacker Accidentally Revealed Iranian Gov’t Ties on His Resume: Feds

If you’re trying to work for a secret Iranian hacking unit, you should probably not put that on your resume. Saeed Pourkarim Arabi allegedly...

Leather Jackets Are Fall Staples. Here Are Some of the Top-Rated Options for Fall.

There may never be any three words that evoke more feelings of excitement and power than “leather-jacket weather.” I love leather jackets. I own...

Attorney General William Barr, Donald Trump’s Fixer, Says Political Justice Is ‘Good and Necessary’

Donald Trump’s attorney general has a novel perspective on the Department of Justice: That political influence in prosecution is a feature, not a...

Better Educate Yourself on Climate Change With These 5 Books

A lot of the US is literally on fire right now. Sometimes, when events like this happen, it’s difficult to bring myself to learn more about them....

Trevor Noah Hammers Bill Barr for Comparing COVID Lockdowns to Slavery

This week, Attorney General William Barr said in a speech, “Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint,” the coronavirus...

Los Angeles Deputies Fired 19 Shots at Dijon Kizzee in Deadly Shooting, Officials Reveal

Los Angeles authorities on Thursday revealed Dijon Kizzee was shot at by deputies at least 19 times after being stopped for a bicycle code...

I Always Find Tea Bags At The Bottom Of My Dishwasher. These Tea Crystals Have Helped Stop That.

With exception to iced coffee, I will proudly admit that tea has always been my main squeeze from the get-go. As my friends and family know, I will...

BuzzFeed Deletes Mass Email Accusing Staffer of Sexual Harassment

Someone earlier this week emailed dozens of BuzzFeed staffers alleging sexual harassment by one of their co-workers. Less than a day later, the...

Like a Good Hug, These Wool Blankets Can Help You Relax a Little More

When things get bad in the world around us, we must resort to finding the small pleasures in life. To me, one of those pleasures is laying under a...

Christian Siriano Held a Fashion Show at Home. It Ended in the Pool.

N ew York Fashion Week ended Wednesday. But not for Christian Siriano. Or maybe he just decided to have a Fashion Day all to himself in his idyllic...

How Trump Screwed His Own Campaign With One Executive Order

Earlier this month, Joe Biden flew to Wisconsin to address the mounting punditry that his election chances were spiraling downward over Donald...

Fox’s Judge Napolitano: Barr Charging Protesters With Sedition Is ‘Absurd’ and ‘Bridge Too Far’

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano rebuked Attorney General William Barr reportedly wanting violent protesters with sedition,...

Postal Service Stiffed $20 Million Cost of Delivering Trump COVID-19 Mailer

As the coronavirus began spreading across the country in March, a white-and-blue postcard from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Not Just ICE: A California Prison Sterilized Her and Other Black Women

Eugenics is still happening in the U.S. under the guidance of state medical authorities—and has been for decades. On Monday, a watershed...

U.S. Intel Repeatedly Warned About Rudy’s ‘Russian Agent’ Pal

At the end of an elegant dinner in May 2019 in downtown Kyiv, Ukrainian parliamentarian Andriy Derkach handed a thick packet of papers to a former...

The ‘Varsity Blues’ Screenwriter’s Cold-Blooded Crusade Against L.A.’s Homeless

On the first Sunday of September, a work crew showed up alongside the Cattaraugus Tunnel, a highway underpass in Los Angeles, and stacked 66 large...

The Latino Vote Was Biden’s to Lose—and He’s Losing It

As Joe Biden does a fine job of losing Latino voters, Donald Trump—who never met a Latino he didn’t bash—is poised to scoop them up. The...

Cops: Online Hook-Up Led Divorcée Mom to Her Daughters’ Killer

It’s every divorced woman’s biggest nightmare: finally meeting the right guy and he turns out to be a psychopath. Such was the case for...

Colombian Cops Killed, Maimed, and Sexually Abused Protesters During Anti-Police Uprising

CALI, Colombia—The video shows two cops kneeling on a lone man in the street. He’s prone and helpless, yet the officers continue to exert deadly...

If We Don’t Hold Trump Accountable on COVID, We Should Quit Pretending We're a Democracy

If Donald Trump is not criminally prosecuted for his intentional misleading of Americans about the deadly risks of COVID-19, plus now holding...

Inside the Vast, Weird World of Guerrilla Wildfire Fighters

On Aug. 19, before wildfires destroyed entire communities in Oregon and cast a pall of smoke over wide swaths of the country, California ordered...

Before It Got a Sweetheart Deal From Trump, Kodak Sponsored His Show

It’s been a mixed bag this week for Eastman Kodak, the storied camera giant that won a now-imperiled $765 million federal coronavirus drug...

Russian Media Is Rooting for Civil War in America: ‘The Worse, the Better’

There is no shortage of local topics that interest the Kremlin—from the poisoning of an inconvenient dissident, to the events in neighboring...

Epstein’s Former Chef Is Cooperating With Feds on Sex Ring Investigation

Virginia Roberts Giuffre clutched the letter as she traversed a California highway overlooking the Pacific Ocean. That February morning, she was en...

Boeing Hid ‘Catastrophic’ 737 Max Design Flaws that Killed Hundreds

The final House Transportation committee report on the fatal design flaws of Boeing’s 737 Max—which killed 346 people in two accidents between...

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s Focus Group for Trump Supporters Proves They’ll Defend Anything

When comedian Robert Smigel appeared on The Last Laugh podcast early this summer, he revealed that his greatest creation, Triumph the Insult Comic...

Hannity Utterly Fails at Using ‘Despacito’ to Mock Biden

Fox News host Sean Hannity tried multiple times on Wednesday to ridicule Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for supposedly pandering to...

The Global Rush to Approve a COVID-19 Vaccine Keeps Getting Creepier

The United Arab Emirates has approved a largely untested Chinese vaccine for emergency use, making the vaccine available to health-care workers as...

Dems Say They’ll Trust COVID Vaccine—Just Not Trump

Moments after Democratic senatorial candidate Cal Cunningham said during a Monday night debate that he would be “hesitant” to take a COVID vaccine...

Daniel Ellsberg Tells Court U.S. Is Out for ‘Revenge’ Against Julian Assange

LONDON—Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who exposed the underbelly of U.S. policy in the Vietnam War, has told a British court that the...

Forget Ketchup & Mustard: My New Obsession is Chicken Sauce

I’m not ashamed to admit this, but I’m currently obsessed with Sweet Baby Ray’s Chicken Sauce. Okay, maybe I’m a little ashamed. I’m not...

Trump Claims Vaccine Will Be Ready by Fall, Says CDC Director Was ‘Confused’

President Trump on Wednesday directly contradicted the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on when the coronavirus vaccine...

Brandi Glanville, Denise Richards, and the Real Housewives’ Gay-Panic Problem

It’s an incredibly sad but illuminating thing when a Real Housewives series reaches a dead end. Last Wednesday, during part two of The Real...

Tom Ford: ‘The Last Thing I Want to See are Serious Clothes’

T om Ford Tom Ford, chairman of the CFDA, addressed his industry looking like the Zoolander cliché of a fashion person, wearing oversized...

CNN’s Brian Stelter Blasts ‘Hypocrite’ Hannity on ‘The View’

The View introduced CNN’s Brian Stelter on Wednesday by playing the recent clip of President Donald Trump openly admitting just how much Fox News...

Fox News Hosts Get Real Awkward When Newt Gingrich Tries to Do a Soros Dog-Whistle

Things got extremely awkward on Fox News panel show Outnumbered on Wednesday after former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich tied billionaire...