Emily McCombs

Recently, Baylor University has been in the news facing accusations of ignoring sexual assault complaints, many involving members of the school's football team. Outside investigations found that school officials had failed to investigate reports of…

All week, "Jeopardy" has been doing "Power Player" games, which are basically "Celebrity Jeopardy" dressed up with the gravitas that the contestants are mostly politicos, journalists, TV pundits and others you'd expect to be in-the-know on current…

First off, let me just say that my vagina is A-OK as is. She looks fine, she tastes fine, she smells fine. I'm a firm believer that God makes each beautiful clamshell perfect just the way she is. I still remember telling a male friend in my younger,…

The robot algorithms in the Netflix account don't have to work that hard to figure out what I'm into -- like 90 percent of what I watch are episodes of cult TV shows and true-crime documentaries. So naturally, they sent me an email to give me a…

I first became a mom in April of 2012, and then again, officially, in August of 2015. The first date is when I became a foster parent to a beautiful baby boy, and the second is when I was finally able to officially adopt him and become his legal…

You could say I'm a little bit into patches. And enamel pins: In fact, I have so many enamel pins that I could never possibly wear them all and have started working on a DIY project to display them as art. I have to keep buying more and more denim…

Can you identify this object? If you're a woman who has ever strapped her business into a brassiere, you probably recognize that weird piece of metal as a piece of underwire that I had to pull out of my bra after it spent a whole day poking the…

If you were one of the thousands of people swept up in the Netflix Original series "Making a Murderer" or just a true crime buff, turn your attention to the "San Antonio Four," a group of friends and Latina lesbians who were wrongfully convicted of…

I didn't know I was a Millennial before coming to work at Elite Daily. Like a lot of people, I thought of Millennials as primarily 20-somethings, which the majority of my Millennial co-workers and employees are. But the most common definition…

I haven't been feeling right lately. I've long struggled with the depression that snakes its way through the roots of my family tree. I know the warning signs that a bout with the disease is coming on, that my medication needs tweaking. When I stop…

As you may have noticed, we here at Elite Daily have been enjoying celebrating Women's History Month. And what's a celebration without decorations? Hence, I've collected some of the very cutest and coolest T-shirts, tanks, sweatshirts, patches, pins…

In the past few years, everybody sort of collectively realized that "bikini body" was a messed-up phrase -- Women's Health even surprised everyone by taking the majorly body-positive move of banning the phrase from the magazine all together. After…

The other day, my 4-year-old and I had the following exchange: He literally couldn't comprehend any kind of job that didn't involve wearing a uniform or driving some kind of specialized truck. (He also thinks driving any kind of vehicle is a job;…

Last night, on "The Bachelor: Women Tell All," America got its first post-show/pre-finale look at the trail of broken women Bachelor Ben Higgins has left in his wake. Seriously, look at these faces. These women have dead eyes. This show has taken…

OK, y'all. I'm an "old" Millennial. I had an actual desk phone on my desk at one point way back at my first job. I actually even had one at my last job, but I didn't know what the phone number was and I don't remember it ever ringing. These days, I…

There are two types of people in this world: Those who put the new toilet paper roll directly on the holder and those who just kind of set it down nearby for awhile. OK, there are probably a lot more kinds of people than that, but my point is that…

I'm a huge dinosaur enthusiast. I shouldn't really have to explain this further as dinosaurs are obviously and inherently awesome. I have plastic ones perched all over my house, on bookshelves and windowsills, and a mid-size toy brontosaurus next to…

Stephen Hawking, some "smart" guy, recently made some predictions about the end of the world. He told Radio Times, the major threats to human life were nuclear war, global warming and an outbreak of genetically engineered viruses. Which, I mean,…

It all started with a tweet. The tweet happened to be from my friend and former co-worker Marci Robin, who had noticed that a cat up for adoption at a New Jersey shelter bore a striking resemblance to a certain actor of "Girls" and "Star Wars: The…

January 6 marked my seventh year of sobriety from drugs and alcohol. SEVEN FREAKING YEARS. It's even hard for me to believe I've gone that long without ingesting a substance stronger than caffeine. Like, are we sure I didn't sleep-snort some cocaine…