Must reads: Email, email, email!
Happy Halloween, gentle readers! With the U.S. election just one week away, we have a roundup of spooky reads for you — just don't read them via your private email server! As always, please let us...
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The UK’s child refugees deserve our support
200 child refugees have been allowed into Britain and, judging by the reaction from politicians and the press, you’d think it was an influx of hundreds of thousands. Making up a whopping 0.00031%...
A game aims to simulate the experience of everyday racism. Does it work?
Mondays are Killer Queen League Night in Portland. I wrap up my work mid-evening and take a train down to the arcade to play a 5v5 competitive multiplayer game. It gets my blood pumping, and the...
On the limitations and promise of Arab millennials
While the media is ripe with discussion on the habits, behavior, and ideologies of American millennials, not much has been said about the lives of the young Arabs who spear-headed the 2010 Arab...
Train to Busan is a zombie action film with a social bite
Zombies are the allegorical gift to global cinema that keeps on giving. They are in perpetual motion, always shambling or racing forward, the unread children of progress heralding the new world order...
Must reads: US politics, crime writing, and a surreal election
October is drawing to a close, the leaves are turning, and another week has begun...which means it's time to talk about what we're reading! We're showing you ours...so pop into comments and show us...
Ched Evans Rape Case: A Woman’s Sexual History on Trial
Ched Evans, the footballer who was previously found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room, has had his conviction overturned following a retrial that found him not guilty of the sexual...
The most stunning debate moment: Will Trump accept the outcome of the election?
Last night marked the third and final presidential debate of the US election, with less than three weeks to go before election day. While there were a number of standout moments — Donald Trump...
Regina Spektor’s ‘Remember Us To Life’ was worth the wait
Classically trained indie piano-pop artist Regina Spektor is back with a new album, Remember Us to Life—her first since 2012’s What We Saw From the Cheap Seats. Like the majority of her catalog,...
#ThisIs2016 and anti-Asian racism is still everywhere
When I was in college, white guys liked to bow at me in bars. I don’t know why the bowings mainly happened in the early 2000s in St. Louis, I have yet to experience so many white guys bowing at me...