For months, a critical mass of Democrats in the House of Representatives anxiously avoided even the slightest mention of impeaching President Donald Trump — right up until the moment when they demanded...
After watching the Game of Thrones series finale, I had one emotion echoing through my head: disappointment. Whether you agree or not, the finale season of Game of Thrones was incredibly divisive and left...
Here we go again. Another incident of bigotry on our campus, another round of questions and demands for action and another swift reaction from campus leaders for PR damage control. As much as I’d love...
I met a drunken Canadian in the locker room of a bath-house rave in Budapest who thought that the controversy surrounding the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s blackface photos indicates that...
What makes the voices of singers like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr., so enduring? Substitute any velvet-noter — Andy Williams, Burl Ives, Harry Connick Jr., the bilious...
While already antsy about embarking on my journey to London for the semester, my flight last week ended up being delayed more than two and a half hours. Sitting in the heavily air-conditioned and wifi-challenged...
The anonymous British artist Banksy, in their characteristic stenciled graffiti-noir style, adorned the canal side of a Venetian building with the image of a refugee child. Ostensibly a subversive and...
I’ve talked before about the abstraction of identity through corporate brands. That scary, scentless iteration of the self, provided instead of created, in the hope of attaining a more perfect posture...
Even if Democrats regain unified control of the White House and both chambers of Congress in 2020 (the biggest of “ifs”), the fate of their sweeping legislative agenda will rest on one fundamental...
On this date (September 19), 24 years ago, the Washington Post, following the FBI’s advice, printed one of the most controversial newspaper issues of all time. Its contents included your typical, day-to-day...
Currently, comedian Dave Chapelle’s new Netflix special, Sticks & Stones, has a critic score of 27% on Rotten Tomatoes, marking the lowest score the comedian has ever received on the site for a comedy...
The Senate is a problem for Democrats.
Tonight, however, when ten of them face off at the third primary debate, that problem may be too easy to forget. After all, visionary progressive agendas and snappy...
