Emily Alford's posts

It has been a turbulent year for the historically racist, heteronormative, and all-around…

When my editor and Victorian ghost-loving kindred spirit Kelly Faircloth told me she had a Fashion Scavenger Hunt…

As the last few hundred years of American history have resoundingly proven, cops are not hot. But as the Whitney…

I realized Tina Fey must not be for me in 2015, when I finally got around to reading her memoir Bossypants and got…

American dead women, your time to be on money has finally arrived! Not paper money, babes, that already has white…

In October of last year, just days before a certain former popularity contest winner with a penchant for too-dark…

Remember the pandemic, when for just a second it seemed as though there were orders in place to keep landlords from…

Every spring, in my home state of Louisiana, every citizen, no matter how much we may hate each other the rest of…

There is literally nothing Stacey Abrams cannot do—write novels, own a business, become a lawyer, turn Georgia blue—a…

A new report by the National Lawyers Guild and the American Civil Liberties Union has found that Los Angeles police,…

When I was growing up, a friend’s middle-class parents had a list of wisdom allegedly passed down from Bill Gates…

Last week, Republican men were wringing their hands over the fact that their “girlfriend” Liz Cheney wasn’t cheering…

Gugulethu Moyo, who until very recently served as the first Black, woman executive director of Tuscon’s Jewish…

I formed every opinion I currently hold of Ryan Murphy’s work back in college with a single episode of Nip/Tuck in…

According to a new study that should have simply been common sense, two weeks of paid sick leave at Walmart could…

Amid allegations that author Blake Bailey was a habitual sexual abuser, it seemed that publisher W.W. Norton was…

My favorite part of any Law & Order episode is when detectives question a neighbor or bystander about the perp or…

Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and their neighbor William Bryan, who were indicted last year for the…

Last Friday, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy asked Stacey Abrams for a “list of the provisions that you object to” in…

Just like humans above ground, a staggering horde of sexually deprived, subterraneous cicadas have been waiting what…