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NBC Helped Create Trump — Now It Owes The American Public
“If host and executive producer Donald Trump behaved toward female staffers of the Trump Organization the way he does on [The Apprentice], promoting women for sexy stunts and ignoring or rewarding the sort of treatment women have received from male Apprentice candidates over the years, he’d be setting himself up for sexual harassment lawsuits.” Read more
Megan Rapinoe Is Kneeling Like Kaepernick Because ‘It’s Our Responsibility Too’
‘America is not great for a lot of people. And this is my way of saying that it’s not good enough.’ Read more
Why Are Inmates Still Being Denied Access To Menstrual Products?
“Pads are not dispensed as they are supposed to be. We are forced to reuse them, we are forced to beg for what we need, and if an officer is in a bad mood, they are allowed to take what we have and say we are hoarding.” Read more
Is ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ A Prophecy Of America’s Future?
It is the compliance of the masses that perpetuates and sanctions government control. Read more
If I Have A Child, They’ll Be Black In America — And This Terrifies Me
What I struggle with most is not what I don’t know, but what I do. Read more
Voting Patterns Are More Complex Than We Realize
“Now prominent Tea Party-endorsed politicians have swept into positions of real influence, giving the rebel movement a taste of real power for the first time.” Read more
Trump, Warren, And The Dehumanization Of Native Women
The onslaught of racist and colonizing imagery has been endless. Read more
Mourning The Forgotten Women Of India’s Violent Partition
By Dipsikha Thakur June is Immigrant Heritage Month, a time when we celebrate people who have left their countries of origin for new opportunities: work, family, safety, refuge. But late June also hurtles towards July, and then August, and the anniversary — this year, the 69th — of the brutality that surrounded India’s independence and subsequent separation from Pakistan along Read more
Why Are We Sympathetic To The Murderers Of Disabled Children?
“It’s critical that we be unified in condemning these crimes without reservation or qualification — the regrettable storm of sympathy from the media that surrounds parents who murder their children sets the stage for copycat crimes. Those who justify this are making themselves accomplices to the next such murder.” Read more