If you’ve read my work for a while, you probably know that knee-jerk anti-Americanism amuses me greatly as someone who’s lived in many different places and is American by choice. It’s easy to...
A Jewish friend who has long worked to normalize relations between Israelis and Palestinians was recently confronted with the sight of her daughter sobbing at the bus stop after being dropped off...
It’s rare that topics such as obesity get a sensitive and thoughtful write up in mainstream news publications, which is why I appreciated this recent Time article by Jamie Ducharme so much. In...
There are moments in the history of the world when words fail us; when nothing contained in all of human language can adequately describe the pain and horror we bear witness to. The only good thing...
I regret to inform you that reactionary American conservatives are once again mad at Taylor Swift. And while I won’t be linking to the recent Federalist article attacking her (they don’t need...
Of all the so-called discourse topics that constantly invade the lives of the extremely online — myself sadly included — none is more annoying that age gap discourse. Age gap discourse is what...
I write this having received hopeful news of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, while cities in Russia are being hit by drones, just a few days after a famous Russian warlord was killed by his own...
The go-to solution for male loneliness, usually expressed in sarcastic tweets (which I am guilty of, I’ll admit), is that men simply be better human beings. It’s true that as women in the Western...
This week, Northrop Grumman's nineteenth commercial resupply services mission for NASA blasted off from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. It was the end of an era. The first stage of the...
On July 4th this year, I made up a random list of what I treasure about the United States of America, my beautiful adopted motherland. Nobody noticed the list that much — there’s a lot happening...
