It’s time for an updated edition of Susan Faludi’s Backlash Witness the recent mass murder of women at a gym in Pennsylvania by a man obsessed with his inability to get women to sleep with him....
Glenn Greenwald, the Salon blogger known as much for his stinging critiques of the corporate media as he is for his passionate defense of civil liberties, highlighted this New York Times story about...
CNN has aired the final part of its new four-hour documentary, Black in America II. Out of all the Black in America segments, this one was the most incoherent. It seemed as though the network was...
Last year, CNN presented a four hour documentary by Soledad O’Brien entitled Black in America. The first part was called The Black Man and the second part was the Black Women and the Family. Much...
Barack Obama nominated for his first opening on the Supreme Court Puerto Rican Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor. The appellate court judge has more judicial experience than anyone currently on the bench,...
Let's talk about sex, shall we? Just with that line, I've opened up all sorts of doors. Talking about sex takes many shapes and forms, particularly in present-day America, where we have a cultural...
Ireland held its European and local elections on Friday. It is now Tuesday and the results are not completely finalised but the winners have been determined. The coverage of the election by the...
Three months ago, an authoritative Russian daily, Izvestia, began a series on an issue that, at first glance, looks like tabloid fodder. Of course, Izvestia is no tabloid, and this is no ordinary...
“Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented” was how former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Charles J Haughey described the discovery of a murderer hiding in the Attorney General's apartment...
Freedom of expression is a fickle beast; inherently crucial in our society, it is equally capable of damage if misinterpreted or yielded by individuals whose intentions are less wholesome. During my...