Along with red postboxes, double-decker buses and old-fashioned phone boxes, black taxis are kind of iconic when tourists think of a holiday to the UK. London, in particular, is characterised by the...
Recently, Donald Trump’s claim that he turned down TIME’s opportunity to be Person of the Year again (though he called it Man of the Year) was disputed by the publication. I saw speculation that...
In March of this year, a pregnant woman went to a police station in London to report that she had been kidnapped and raped in Germany for a period of six months. The police sent her to Havens, a...
Good morning, gentle readers! This week we're exploring reads on subjects from Rikers Island to child marriage, so settle in — and when you're done, why not pop into comments to tell us what...
Another day, another case in which a US judge hands down an extremely lenient sentence to a white, privileged rapist with a 'bright future' ahead of him. Cue fury, with people rising up to demand a...
In January 2015, a Stanford freshman raped a woman behind a dumpster. In June 2016, a court sentenced him to six months in jail plus probation. You’ve read a dozen headlines and articles about the...
Geraldine Brooks’ latest novel, an account of the life of King David told by his prophet, Nathan (Natan), takes its title from Leonard Cohen’s beloved and much-covered song, Hallelujah. Although...
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...
Aylan Kurdi, along with his mother Rehen and brother Galip, died in an attempt to escape the horrors of war-torn Syria and reach Europe. They were among the tens of thousands of refugees who have...
Game of Thrones aired another predictably bloody and explosive season finale on Sunday, sending the internet into a tizzy and leading readers of the books to note that finally everyone is in...