What pisses me off about the ongoing fallout from the massacre in Orlando is this: non-Muslims who hate LBGT folks are pretending that their homophobia…
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I’m dealing with massive cognitive dissonance right now. Multiple, contradictory beliefs and perceptions inhabit my mind, each compelling on its own terms. How do I…
US cities became increasingly segregated by race over the 20th century. General consensus holds that most of this segregation was concentrated in the post-war period.…
Neil Young has a long history of activism. He is a co-founder of Farm Aid, which works to support small and family farmers in North…
In a trio of recent action-packed movies, good guys watch terrorists mingling with innocent women and children via real-time video feeds from halfway across the…
It’s rare for a person—deliberately—to subjugate to their will someone they care about. Typically, when someone acts manipulatively toward another, their motive, at least consciously,…
The US crime bill that former President Bill Clinton approved while in office led to a surge in the imprisonment of black people during the…
Interview with Odysseas Papadimitriou, CEO of CardHub, on their latest study examining the accelerating increase in credit card debt levels, why he thinks this is…
The librarian was nondescript in the way that everyone standing behind a counter is, probably in her 30s, with straight, fox-colored hair. When she took…
Scanning a prison menu is a bleak task. Common food items range from nutraloaf—a mishmash of ingredients baked into a tasteless beige block—to, rumor has…
A new study by a University of California-Berkeley economist says that at current sluggish levels of job growth, entire regions of the United States, which…
Election 2016: On Super Tuesday, An Alternative to the Quadrennial Charade It’s The Big Day in the 2016 presidential election. Bipartisan primaries and caucuses in…