Getting older often feels like a rude awakening. But for this writer, who was about to surpass her late mother’s age, the number 39 took on a whole other meaning.
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Republicans may have dumbed down politics, but the mainstream media, with its embrace of a good guy/bad guy narrative and its refusal to focus on the issues and interrogate problematic...
Sexpert and activist Tristan Taormino taught a generation of people that anal sex was not the sole domain of gay men. In this poignant excerpt from A PART OF THE HEART CAN'T BE EATEN,...
Oxford University medievalist Jenni Nuttall reveals centuries of women's rebellion against patriarchal strictures as reflected in the evolution of our language, in this fascinating...
The Right's war on the fourth estate is nothing new. But when cops raided a rural Kansas newspaper office and its editors’ homes over an investigation in progress, a new horrifying...
Republicans are subverting crises narratives to portray themselves as victims. And it is literally killing the people most in need of our attention and aid.
In this exclusive excerpt from ‘Survivor Injustice,’ Kylie Cheung exposes the disingenuousness of Lyft’s anti-sexual violence measures as the ride-sharing company defiantly...
The writer never imagined identifying with Barbie. But Greta Gerwig’s thought-provoking portrait of the doll’s rude awakening of experiencing misogyny in the real world mirrored the...
Republicans believe that stoking their constituents’ rage by inventing controversies wins at the voting booths. So why aren’t news outlets exposing these campaigns of terror for...