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Conspicuous Consumption Is Over — It’s All About Intangibles Now
The troubling new way America’s top 1% reproduce their privilege ensures the middle class never has a shot to catch up. Read more
Learn The Stomach-Turning Numbers Behind America’s Police Violence
Data indicate law enforcement officials have killed nearly 500 civilians this year alone. Read more
Beauty Is A Preposterous, Amazing Gift We Give To One Another
The experience of beauty I share with my friends is a bulwark in a world full of bullshit, a bastion against very real everyday horrors. Read more
The GOP Health-Care Bill Would Push More Disabled People Into Poverty
The system around disability benefits is already broken — and it could soon get exponentially worse. Read more
There Are Real Paid Protesters, But They’re All Right Wingers
The right has neglected to mention that ‘paid protesters’ are part of the right-wing apparatus. Read more
In California, Nurse Midwives Deliver — But Still Answer To Doctors
By Sarah Torna Roberts After an almost too easy road toward adoption, California Assembly Bill 1306 died on the Assembly floor in the last hours of the last day of the most recent legislative session. Had it passed, the state of California would have allowed certified nurse midwives (CNMs) to fully utilize their education and training Read more
‘One Creates Oneself’: The Feminist Who Loved Makeup
By Chelsea Cristene 1997: The girls at school collect Bonnie Bell Lip Smackers. We line them up on one of our desks, form a circle, compare. The most basic come in standard fruit flavors like lime and watermelon. Some, like my frosty blue snowflake gloss from a holiday collection, are laden with sparkles. The rarest offer Read more
How To Look Like A Warty Green Witch
The latest how-to from Make Your Face, a makeup tutorial series with a simple mission: makeup by you (me) for your (my) own entertainment, Establishment-style. Now in dazzling video!
Women Taking Their Husbands’ Last Names Is Biblical Misogyny
“Women and men may be equal, but I think it’s pretty clear that the Bible teaches us that women should not be in authority over a man . . . Here’s the point I’m making. With all that’s going on with Trump and everybody screaming and hollering about that, when is the last time your pastor stood up in the pulpit and said, ‘Hey, listen, we cannot vote for Hillary Clinton because women are not to have authority over men?” Read more