Last week I attended an Alt-Right rally hoping that I might be able to understand the white-supremacist movement and the people who subscribe to it. I went in open-minded with few expectations...
The Church of England has made moves to be more accepting and inclusive of the LGBT+ community, last weekend voting to welcome transgender members and condemn gay ‘conversion therapy’. The...
A 10-month-old boy is expected to die today, after his parents lost a court battle to keep him alive. Doctors and specialists at the world-renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for children...
Vincent Chin promised his mother that this was the last time he’d be going out to the club. Before he left home, she told him not to say “last time” as it was bad luck. I suspect that...
As rainbow flags are flown around the world during Pride month, and many people have come to accept same-sex relationships as valid, it can be easy to forget that the LGBT+ community still...
Terror attacks in the West have over the years taken on a predictable response. Immediately, the internet runs wild with speculation – much of it wrong, much of it racist. If the perpetrator...
On Wednesday morning, two very different incidents unfolded on opposite sides of the United States. In Virginia, a practice for the traditional Congressional Baseball Game was interrupted by a...
Since the trailers for the next Star Trek series, Star Trek: Discovery, hit the Internet, I’ve been transfixed. Frankly, I’ve been giddy. To cut to what Twitter, critics, bloggers, and Trekkies...
In the past week, Americans have learned that President Trump shared code-word level classified information with the Russian foreign minister and an ambassador, endangering relations with...
Last week was the 135th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act. On May 6, 1882, the US passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese people to America. The very few Chinese people allowed to...
