Molly Naylor-Komyatte

• Arts
• Culture
• Race

In the fall of 2014, hundreds of high school students in Jefferson County, Colorado, walked out of class to protest their newly elected conservative school board’s proposed curriculum-review committee calling for the promotion of “positive aspect...

• Culture
• Gender
• LGBTQ+ Politics

In the latest episode of the Trump administration mixing public governance with private business, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom chose not to carry Ivanka Trump’s eponymous fashion line for the upcoming year (later followed by Sears and Kmart). This m...

• Culture

The most popular television comedy in the United States, The Big Bang Theory, catalogues the lives of a group of young scientists. The genius detective Sherlock Holmes claims two television series and a movie franchise starring Robert Downey, Jr., on...

• Culture

In the less than three weeks between the first and second presidential debates, the Donald Trump campaign veered toward the precipice of full-fledged implosion. The Washington Post released a behind-the-scenes Access Hollywood recording of Trump brag...

• Elections
• United States

President Barack Obama recently took to the Steve Harvey Morning Show to admonish listeners against voting for a third-party candidate in the upcoming presidential election, calling such a choice “a vote for Trump.” In a contest between two major...

• Economy - Old
• United States

The rising political profile of income inequality, particularly in the current presidential election cycle, has failed to quell callous pontification about the lifestyles and choices of low-income Americans. David French recently wrote in the Nationa...

• Culture

Martin Shkreli, the now-infamous former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, was dubbed “the most hated man in America” by multiple media outlets in the wake of his company’s decision to raise the price of Daraprim — a drug used to treat parasitic...

• Culture
• Elections
• Gender
• United States

Last November, Hillary Clinton declared that “Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” In December, at a campaign event in New Hampshire, the former Secretary of State was asked, “You say that all rape vi...

• Elections
• United States

Last summer, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders wrote an opinion piece in the Boston Globe entitled “The War on the Middle Class.” He concluded with a statement that has become all but ubiquitous along the Sanders presidential campaign, as it neatly...

• Culture

Approximately one year ago, Fort Lauderdale made national headlines after prosecuting a 90-year-old homeless activist and two pastors for feeding homeless people. This perverse incident stemmed from a city ordinance requiring private groups handing o...

• Arts
• Culture

In early October, Belarussian journalist Svetlana Alexievich became one of the few Nobel laureates recognized for nonfiction. Known for chronicling Soviet national tragedies through the collection of hundreds of individual interviews, Alexievich rece...

• Culture
• Environment
• Race
• United States

On September 29, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized new rules to improve air quality in areas surrounding oil refineries across the United States, a move that the agency maintains will reduce the risk of cancer for 1.4 million people...