6 ways to stop Trump
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...
Category: Commentary
Qandeel Baloch died a feminist hero
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...
What Turkey’s attempted coup means for Erdogan
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...
Can you be an expat in your own country?
My mother never forced me to speak Cantonese. Despite spending the bulk of my childhood in Seattle and then Texas, my mother feared for my English. While she continued to speak to me in Cantonese...
A female Prime Minister is not necessarily a feminist Prime Minister
Yesterday, Queen Elizabeth invited Theresa May to become the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Our second female Prime Minister should perhaps be something to celebrate but, on its own, the fact that...
10 steps to take when you’re done praying
While at American Baptist College, in Nashville, TN, I was bothered about the purpose of prayer. I said something like, “If God already know my life, what is the use of me praying? It’s going to...
Taxing opiates will not fix America’s addiction problems
The so-called “prescription pill epidemic” has been making headlines in the U.S. for years—and much to the consternation of chronic pain patients and their advocates, few media outlets or...
Donald Trump is obsessed with dictators
Donald Trump's bellicose and confrontational approach to everything and everyone he deems a threat to him and his perceived interests has made him infamous – or radical, depending on your viewpoint...
7 key takeaways from the Supreme Court’s latest abortion decision
The clock was ticking on the Supreme Court's term when it finally released a ruling in Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt, a landmark decision exploring the constitutionality of Texas' HB2, a law...
What “The Worst Tweet” tells us about internet culture
The "Worst Tweet Ever” was a little underwhelming, if you think about it. The “Worst Tweet,” for all of the three people on the Internet who haven’t heard about it, is what a woman who Tweets...