Social norms have begun to change, they’ve shifted, and the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset, and I get it,” Biden said

All the best to this gorgeous and talented couple.

I’m struggling between “don’t feed trolls” and “everyone needs to see this"

Congratulations on leaving what is easily the most deranged comment I’ve ever received in my year of working at Jezebel lol. 

Fantastic piece! I look forward to more from you.

This article is excellent! To correlate the ‘economic anxiety’ on a generational level using Mr. Garner’s family as an example is simply inspired! I loved every single word.

When cities no longer provide material comfort and companies abandon us like obsolete machinery, left to rust when we’ve reached our useful life, the pioneers among us engage in a “silent pilgrimage.” From the south to the north and back south again, we search elsewhere in the country’s boundaries looking for a…

Really a great article. I am sick of how little people want to see that ‘working class’ isn’t just sad white people in mining towns. The lack of empathy towards working class black people is flagrantly racist at the worst of times and bigoted blindness at the best.

Thank you for everything I could ever want from an article on The Root, I hope that you can continue to provide us with gems like this

Oh my goodness I am left without words. This is pure excellence and what I consider rare form.

This is the best article I’ve ever read on The Root and, so far, the best I’ve seen in 2019. 

i would have listened without Beyonce being her sister. A seat at the table put her on her own island in ways her prior albums didn’t. and i too actually like her. so i’d give her a shot off of GP. and i dont think she’s untalented. i think the bar was set so high with her last album that this one feels bad.

I actually do think it was a scold, because it presumes that young black men can actually change society’s perception of them, which we absolutely cannot do individually, nor as a group. It’s actually quite a gross answer, because it puts the onus on the victims of oppression to get society to stop oppressing them.…

Isn’t Obama speaking more towards pop culture imagery here than specifics? Unlike, say, Bill Cosby, I assume Obama is savvy enough to know there aren’t roving bands of twerking women looking for rich rappers to dance around.

I said this yesterday, but I don’t think I could count on two hands the number of young female artists that Adams has been closely tied to either professionally or personally, only for all ties to be abruptly severed. (Sometimes their careers disappeared afterward, too.) If even a fraction of those women had similar…

Hm, I don’t know if I would blame Chelsea Phillips for this. The ad itself - although boring - definitely presents women much more differently than most beer commercials. They’re not even scantily clad mermaids!

The MOST confident move was to stand there with RBF instead of kowtowing to that director’s whims.

I still don’t trust her. (or chuck)

I’m eager to hear all about how she’s taking healthcare money in return for shutting down debate on single payer.

Where was this Nancy last month?