For everyone who's lamented that Obama is turning out to be just like George W. Bush, I present you with Exhibit A for the defense: Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Sotomayor is 54, from the Bronx, Puerto...
Canada's now defunct residential school system will go down in history as one of our grossest violations of human rights and dignity. On July 11, 2008 Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a public...
...And? So? Or as they say here, nu? Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the U.S.A. President Barack Obama have met. Pleasantries were exchanged, both said the other was a swell guy,...
If I could give any piece of advice to President Obama besides the obvious ones for any transperson lucky enough to get some face time with him would, it would be this: Next year, give a commencement...
Racism strikes again here in the Great White North, otherwise known as Canada. It seems that when you are backed into a corner, punched and have a racial slur thrown at you, acting in your own...
Writing critically about race is not an easy thing to do. We have tendency to avoid discussing race as it has been determined to be one of those “hot button” subjects. This silence about race...
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, one of the three Republicans who compromised on Obama's stimulus bill, has decided that he's no longer a Republican. When Minnesota finally gets Al Franken seated,...
Some people describe 2008 as "the year of African-Americans," due to Barack Obama's successful bid to become the first black American President. However, could his success be used as an example of...
The Purity Myth (Avalon, 2009) was written by Jessica Valenti of the feminist blog Feministing. It seeks to explore the issue of virginity as obsession and comment on how said obsession is ultimately...
They call it a “debate” like there's anything to debate. As if international law and Dick Cheney's snarling are both equally valid. As if torture “working” makes it defensible. Despite the...