Pose’s Billy Porter closed out night one of the Democratic National Convention Monday with a performance of his take on Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” — accompanied by original songwriter Stephen Stills. As the DNC was virtual this year in light of the pandemic, the performance took the form …

Taylor Swift slammed Donald Trump’s attempts to tamper with the U.S. Postal Service — and with it, their ability to handle mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic — in a series of tweets Saturday. “Trump’s calculated dismantling of USPS proves one thing clearly: He is WELL AWARE that we do …

The word “badass” gets tossed around a lot. But MJ Hegar, a 44-year-old Texas Democrat who is running to unseat three-term Republican Sen. John Cornyn, has actually earned the tag. After she went to the University of Texas in Austin, where she spent more than a few late nights blasting …

In May, the R&B singer Anthony Hamilton released “Back Together,” a head-nodding single built around a sample of Rick James‘ and Teena Marie‘s towering ballad “Fire and Desire.” This month, Hamilton transformed the forceful original into a whispered lament with a new “Quiet Storm mix” that’s expressly designed to win …

This article was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has picked Senator Kamala Harris of California to be his running mate. Harris beat out a long list of qualified women for the spot — Senator Elizabeth …

WASHINGTON — A few weeks ago, more than 2,000 election officials from across the country participated in a virtual-training program known as a table-top exercise. Organized by the Department of Homeland Security, the training brought home the many obstacles facing state and local election officials in this pandemic year. Election …

Hilary Swank plays an astronaut on the first mission to Mars in the new trailer for Away, set to premiere September 4th on Netflix. The show will mix tense outer space adventure and fraught family drama, as Swank’s character, Emma Green, grapples with the decision to embark on a three-year …

The Replacements have unearthed a previously unreleased demo of “I Don’t Know,” which is set to appear on the upcoming reissue of their 1987 album, Pleased to Meet Me, out October 9th via Rhino. The demo version, unsurprisingly, is rougher around the edges, although that’s certainly not a negative when …

100 Gecs, the critically beloved, genre-blending, extremely online duo from St. Louis, take Number One on the Breakthrough 25 Chart, which ranks the fastest-rising emerging artists of the month. While Dylan Brady and Laura Les won over a number of music fans last year with their debut studio album, 1000 …

President Donald Trump has largely avoided subjecting himself to the scrutiny of a one-on-one interviews with actual journalists. There’s a good reason for this. We caught a glimpse of it last month when Chris Wallace of Fox News dismantled Trump’s argument that Joe Biden wants to defund the police. But …