The American sports world is inextricably intertwined with the political arena. Championship teams in the US’s four major sports leagues—Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), a...
Unanswered questions and unspoken words are common in grief: A man who has lost his wife may sit by himself in his home and whisper words he never got to say, and a daughter grieving for her father may play back his voicemails to hear his voice again...
Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, reviews depictions of epidemics in Twilight (2008), The Last of Us (2023), Outbreak (1995), and Contagion (2011), and discusses how they relate to real...
Political conflict and international relations aren’t usually the first things that come to mind when listening to classical music. As a genre made up largely of European repertoire from days past, it’s more likely to conjure up images of cathedr...
Political conflict and international relations aren’t usually the first things that come to mind when listening to classical music. As a genre made up largely of European repertoire from days past, it’s more likely to conjure up images of cathedr...
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the Supreme Court, the same Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of such cases as Roe V. Wade, United States V. Nixon, and Furman V. Georgia, once passed supreme judgment on breasts. Specifically, those of Ann Margaret Tay...
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the Supreme Court, the same Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of such cases as Roe V. Wade, United States V. Nixon, and Furman V. Georgia, once passed supreme judgment on breasts. Specifically, those of Ann Margaret Tay...
The day before Anita Sarkeesian, the founder of Feminist Frequency, was scheduled to talk at Utah State University, administration members received an e-mail warning about a shooting massacre that would happen if Sarkeesian spoke: This will be the de...
The day before Anita Sarkeesian, the founder of Feminist Frequency, was scheduled to talk at Utah State University, administration members received an e-mail warning about a shooting massacre that would happen if Sarkeesian spoke: This will be the de...
A Pew Research graphic illustrating the religious makeup of the 114th Congress, via the Pew Research Center. Do American politicians see themselves as American Jews or Jewish Americans? That question, and the cultural stigmas behind it, presents thes...
A Pew Research graphic illustrating the religious makeup of the 114th Congress, via the Pew Research Center. Do American politicians see themselves as American Jews or Jewish Americans? That question, and the cultural stigmas behind it, presents thes...
On January 11, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic was elected Croatia’s first female president in a close 50.4 percent to 49.6 percent vote against outgoing head of state Ivo Josipovic. Despite being a relatively young country, Croatia, as of January 11, has...
On January 11, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic was elected Croatia’s first female president in a close 50.4 percent to 49.6 percent vote against outgoing head of state Ivo Josipovic. Despite being a relatively young country, Croatia, as of January 11, has...
ABC’s Bob Woodruff is one of the few American journalists who has been allowed inside North Korean borders. He has been to the country a total of five times, most recently in 2013 to report on national celebrations of the sixtieth anniversary of th...
ABC’s Bob Woodruff is one of the few American journalists who has been allowed inside North Korean borders. He has been to the country a total of five times, most recently in 2013 to report on national celebrations of the sixtieth anniversary of th...
In the 2014 fiscal year, the United States allotted one-hundredth of one percent of its discretionary spending to the arts, at a little over $146 million. That money went to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an independent agency of the fede...
In the 2014 fiscal year, the United States allotted one-hundredth of one percent of its discretionary spending to the arts, at a little over $146 million. That money went to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an independent agency of the fede...
SOMA, a bastion of contemporary, didactic art and subversive film, is an independent art gallery, coined ‘residencia,’ in the artistically inclined neighborhoods of Mexico City’s Federal District. A few hundred miles south of SOMA, in Managua, ...
SOMA, a bastion of contemporary, didactic art and subversive film, is an independent art gallery, coined ‘residencia,’ in the artistically inclined neighborhoods of Mexico City’s Federal District. A few hundred miles south of SOMA, in Managua, ...
On September 26th, 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal teacher-training school, a rural teachers’ college in the Mexican state of Guerrero with a long history of leftist activism and educational empowerment of the surrounding campesino com...
On September 26th, 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal teacher-training school, a rural teachers’ college in the Mexican state of Guerrero with a long history of leftist activism and educational empowerment of the surrounding campesino com...
Thoroughly mixed into the cultural Kool-Aid of the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system — consisting of “G,” “PG,” “PG-13,” “R” and “NC-17” — is one of the most effective tools of censo...
Thoroughly mixed into the cultural Kool-Aid of the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system — consisting of “G,” “PG,” “PG-13,” “R” and “NC-17” — is one of the most effective tools of censo...
The New York Marriage Equality Act of 2011 promised that same-sex marriages and opposite-sex marriages would be treated the same in all respects of the law, allowing people like Jann Paczkowski to finally marry their partners. Most narratives surroun...
The New York Marriage Equality Act of 2011 promised that same-sex marriages and opposite-sex marriages would be treated the same in all respects of the law, allowing people like Jann Paczkowski to finally marry their partners. Most narratives surroun...
At least four residents of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, including a 90-year-old man, face up to 60 days in jail or a $500. Their crime? Feeding the homeless. In late October, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission approved Ordinance C-14-42. The measure is...
At least four residents of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, including a 90-year-old man, face up to 60 days in jail or a $500. Their crime? Feeding the homeless. In late October, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission approved Ordinance C-14-42. The measure is...