The erasure of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s radical legacy is a transgression of historic proportions. Just a few months before King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, he wrote the...
Falling over in public is embarrassing. Doing so on camera for an international audience could make you want to crawl into a hole and never climb out. But when Brazilian athlete and torchbearer...
The EpiPen is one of the most brilliant lifesaving medical developments of recent years: Few other medications and devices can have such an instantaneously dramatic effect. Americans with severe...
I just watched the Vice documentary about Anthony Sowell, the black serial killer in Cleveland who raped and strangled eleven women between 2007 and 2009, and raped a few others who managed to get...
Last week, you could have been forgiven for thinking that the only political activity going on in the UK was #traingate. The most important story in the news was about whether a man sat down on a...
At some point in the recent past, a roughly 60-year-old woman died in Southern California, and generously donated her body to science. 5,000 miles away, her body is about to be cut open for the...
Labor journalist Sarah Jaffe has covered a myriad of topics in her work, ranging from “trickle-down feminism” to tenants’ rights to popular culture—and her first book, Necessary Trouble,...
I write primarily to Jill Stein voters. I understand the festering resentments and the mistrust and downright hatred for Hillary Clinton. I understand your feelings of moral outrage and the need to...
Last year, Britain’s only NHS clinic dealing with gender identity conditions in under 18s reported a 100% increase in the number of children being referred to them for assessment and treatment....
It has been hard to escape the recent controversy surrounding the prohibition of modest Muslim swimwear in areas of coastal France. The ‘burkini ban’ has been implemented in towns including...
