One of my favorite, so to speak, people in Washington D.C. is finally facing criminal charges. That’s right, congressman George Santos stands accused of violating campaign finance laws and other...
I wish I could say that Andrew Tate was not my problem. Life is stressful enough for me as it is. But ever since this particular creepy influencer has been hit with human trafficking and rape charges...
I’m lucky to have friends who live in many different places. Some are in London, others in NYC. A large concentration of people I love lives in Kyiv, though many are displaced because of the war....
Out of all of the dumb things that have happened to me lately, nothing bewilders me more than the Russian-American woman who threatened me with the FBI and then called my ass fat. It’s bewildering,...
Ukrainian war photographer Julia Kochetova recently wrote on her Instagram: “I hope the war ends before my heart does.” It’s a simple and elegant statement. Like a slap across the face. Both...
When it comes to the aesthetics of the apocalypse, human beings have always dreamed vividly about the end of the world. I like to think that this is because we are a world unto ourselves. Awareness...
All of the tolerable jokes about Chinese spy balloons have already been made. I don’t have any new ones. What I do have is a strange sense of unease. Several people whom I trust and respect predict...
I am catastrophically bad at lying. It’s why I could never be a spy (no matter what awful men with strange fantasies say about me online), or work in politics for that matter. Having said that,...
Mental health has been a major concern in recent years and with good reason, more than 300 million people worldwide live with depression, according to the World Health Organization. The figure...
My son has a friend who was forced to leave the Ukrainian city of Dnipro with his family last year. My son’s friend is a serious and studious boy, the kind of child able to excel even in a...
