Last weekend, 125 garment workers died in Bangladesh in a horrific factory fire that tore through the Tazreen Fashion factory. Accounts of the conditions at the factory, and in the fire, should...
by Victoria Aitken I was recently at the Amsterdam Dance Event, the biggest and most amazing dance event in the world, which grows every year exponentially. Sadly, the growth and love for dance...
by Mariya Strauss I’ve known Amber Smock since we were both in grad school; since then she has trained her writing and political organizing lasers on a single target: making the world a more...
by Anna Lekas Miller Minutes before the ceasefire, Israeli F-16s were still dropping bombs on Gaza. Still, at 9 PM exactly—the time that Egypt, Hamas and Israel agreed that the ceasefire...
By Anna Hamilton One common complaint leveled at modern intersectional feminism—particularly academic feminism and Women’s Studies—is that feminism that doesn’t exclusively focus on issues of...
I find myself oddly mermerised by ABC’s 666 Park Avenue, something I really wasn’t expecting when I first started watching the series. The pilot suggested a run of the mill horror drama that...
“Is God dead?” For some atheists he never lived, but our film idols did. And when the director you worship dies how do you begin to replace him? Like religion there’s a good deal of choice on...
by Anna Lekas Miller On Monday night, Egypt brokered a tentative truce between Israeli and Palestinian factions—who, after five days of cross-border clashes that killed 6 Palestinians and injured...
With her distinctive calling-card single “Video Games” and album Born To Die, Lana Del Rey has been one of the most hotly debated artists of the past year. Initially feted for her “gangsta...
The New York Times recently published two of the year’s most important stories. For those who were too distracted by Hurricane Sandy or election activities to read them, allow me to sum up: The...
