Sharknado: End of an era
2013 was an interesting year in film. The box office was dominated by big budget epics like The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the ongoing war between Marvel and DC...
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But We Survived: A Story of Living Through the Japanese Internment in America
I met Natsumi* almost 10 years ago in Los Angeles. She was the program coordinator for a senior community center (“I’m a professional volunteer!” she likes to joke) I taught at. Observant,...
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...
7 things straight people aren’t understanding about Orlando
An American man bought two guns and, at the weekend, shot and killed 49 LGBT people, predominantly people of colour, and injured a further 53. The attack, at the LGBT Pulse nightclub in Orlando, has...
Whitewater is the ghost of Clinton’s past
If you'd forgotten about Whitewater, you've certainly remembered by now: It was all over the news yesterday in the wake of Politico's publication of a series of opposition research emails. The...
The Invisible Holocaust: North Korea’s Horrible Mimicry
Entire generations of families imprisoned. Food so scarce that starvation is barely a week away. Actions, words, even beliefs monitored by guards in tall watchtowers, fingers itching over the...
The media is using Prince as an object lesson for opioid epidemic hit pieces
The shocking and untimely death of musical icon Prince earlier this year saddened millions of fans and fellow musicians around the world—but the news media, particularly in the U.S., seemingly...
Is the Sanders campaign paving the way to a Trump victory?
The 2016 presidential election in the United States is growing increasingly more baroque, and more terrifying. With Donald Trump effectively clinching the GOP nomination — though he won't be...
Idaho’s lead contamination crisis
Recent news about the lead-contaminated water supply in Flint, Michigan, made other communities around the country want to pay a bit more attention to local efforts concerning water quality testing...