The first time my ex-husband hit me, it was around 6 o'clock in the morning. I was three months pregnant. I hit him back and ran, locking myself in our bedroom. He kicked down the door to get at me,...
It’s almost touching, really, to remember the era in which we could be scandalized by a single celebrity nude. In the 2000s, a simple photo of Britney Spears getting out of a cab without panties,...
Israel tends to bombard Gaza a little extra every couple of years, making siege trendy—literally. The exercise in genocide that is “Operation Protective Edge” had more than an edge on Gaza,...
The United States faces an unprecedented surge in the number of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America. Specifically, the children are fleeing El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala; a region...
We are not all Michael Brown. Or John Crawford III, Rekia Boyd or Aiyana Stanley Jones. Nor are we all Cliven Bundy, Steve Loehner, or any of the dozens of Open Carry advocates whose images have...
Big data is a big deal and Americans are of two minds about it. In this case, though, the division of attitudes doesn’t break along the expected good/bad line. Instead, American attitudes about it...
Once again, hats off to Netanyahu for putting his foot down in “reaction” to on-going and legitimate Palestinian resistance. As Gaza bangs on glass windows for international outcry, Israel is...
Michael Lucas is the most mainstreamed, provocative, and controversial figure in gay adult entertainment” according to his website, and it’s hard not to believe the hype. A sort of David O....
It's not easy to explain what is going on in Detroit right now. The city is in the depths of complicated bankruptcy proceedings to solve financial situation that goes back decades, and is currently...
“Even true stories have to be invented sometimes to be remembered…” The winner of Australia’s premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, was announced last week – it went to Evie...
