On Thanksgiving, I, like millions of other people across the US, sat at my Thanksgiving day table and promptly got into a fight with my conservative family members. Thanksgiving is one of the most...
California’s Silicon Valley has become almost a parody of itself — and definitely a pending referendum on late-stage capitalism. As in the tech bubble of the late 1990s, the entire Bay Area is...
Netflix dropped Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Friday and the internet hasn’t been able to shut up about it since, particularly when it comes to a corner of the internet that tends to be particularly...
Hillary Clinton announced her Presidential candidacy on April 12, 2015. In the moment, it was great news. I like the woman; I believe her to be the single strongest and most qualified candidate in...
Following a draft U.N. Security Council resolution forwarded by the French in the wake of the heinous terrorist crime leveled against Paris, the major powers on that world body voted unanimously in...
US late night television is a cultural institution that keeps night owls up with comedy, political commentary, and satire, with some programmes like Saturday Night Live stretching back decades. Often...
Many viewers of AMC’s The Walking Dead have complex feelings for the show. It’s kind of like a high school relationship that makes you listen to a lot of Cure and repeatedly doodle broken...
The opening of 2015 saw Paris afflicted by the horrendous terrorist attacks on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish kosher supermarket. The closing of 2015 has sadly seen another...
Yesterday as I sat in Casablanca, a phone call came. There were attacks in Paris: the Stade de France was being attacked. A restaurant had been shot at. As we sat in a quiet restaurant watching the...
SPECTRE opens in a burst of colour and noise on the streets of Mexico City as James Bond fights his way through crowds of Day of the Dead celebrants and into the customary attempted...