How representative is the electoral system of representative democracy? Evidence shows that voter turnout in established democracies has taken a slump since the '80s. Voter apathy is directly...
Greetings, salutations, and happy August! To celebrate the end of the RNC and DNC, we've rounded up an all-Trump special — because Donald Trump did just that much in the last two weeks. If you've...
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, 19 men and women were stabbed to death, and 25 others wounded, in the Tsukui Yamayuri-En centre for disabled people in Sagamihara near Tokyo, Japan. The...
The third season of Netflix’s acclaimed animated series BoJack Horseman was made available for streaming last week. This dark comedy series follows the adventures of a washed-up alcoholic actor...
Damnit, I was so excited for Pokémon GO a few months ago. A Pokémon game on cell phones where I could walk around in the real world and catch my very own Pocket Monsters? It felt like the stuff of...
So… Tim Kaine, I guess. Huh. Hillary Clinton’s VP pick, the matter of speculation, excitement and fervid political fan-fiction for months, has turned out to be the mother of all disappointing...
What a month to be alive. Two US political conventions, new BoJack Horseman, and mayhem in British politics. We sifted through the internet for some of the news that's making us think — now share...
Last night, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump formally accepted his party's nomination in an interminable speech that incorporated fascist demagoguery and outright lies. It far...
Qandeel Baloch, Pakistan's contentious social media celebrity, model, and feminist activist, was brutally strangled to death by her brother Waseem Azeem, who confessed that he choked her in...
The failure of last Friday's attempted putsch in Turkey, which was foiled within a few hours, and the rapid crackdown on dissenting elements in Turkey's legal and military system, has led to some...
