When one of my kids was 12, he was invited to join an esteemed local choir, one of the crown jewels of Albany’s Episcopal Cathedral of All Saints. Although he was an atheist, he didn’t object to singing Christian music — years in children’s choruses and “holiday” concerts had accustomed him to that.
Read MoreDo you have a favorite book by Roald Dahl? I do—it’s his adult novel, My Uncle Oswald, a work defined by its unremitting misanthropy, vulgar sex scenes, and troubling sympathy for eugenics.
Read MoreST. PAUL, Minn. — The work of the Iranian American artist Taravat Talepasand is cheeky, erotic and defiantly anticlerical. One painting in her new midcareer survey, “Taravat,” incorporates Iranian bank notes whose images of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have been dosed with LSD.
Read MoreSending cash to parents, with few strings attached. Expanding Medicaid. Providing child care subsidies to families earning six figures.
Read MoreEvangelicals have been deceived but do they know that? For many years I wondered why conservative evangelicals call themselves pro-life when many of them don’t seem to really care about the sanctity of life. I mean they might care for an unborn child, but they certainly don’t extend that same passion towards caring for the mother or the type of “life” the child will have once they are born.
Read MoreBefore the millions of views, the subsequent ridicule and finally the earnest apology, The Associated Press Stylebook practically oozed good intentions in its tweet last week:
“We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing ‘the’ labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college educated.”
“The French”?
Read MoreIn Iran, the Islamic Republic has a long and well-documented policy of using violence as a tool of political repression. Nationwide protests against the regime, triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman being held in police custody, were met with severe crackdowns and widespread arrests, followed by what would charitably be called show trials. Indeed, even to call them that is to grant them a veneer of legitimacy that they do not deserve.
Read MoreTwitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use the reach of its platform for their own ends, and then one made himself the CEO.
Read MoreThe authors of a new study can’t say if this impacted the midterms, but say that it’s “plausible given just how stark the differences in vaccination rates have been, among Democrats and Republicans.”
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Non-profit Generation Hope announced today that New Orleans, Louisiana will be their newest location for their Scholar Program. The program is designed to surround young parents with mentoring, tuition assistance, a peer community and other vital, wrap-around services to help them earn their college degrees. Generation Hope is set to officially welcome its first class of scholars in the summer of 2023, partnering with local universities, organizations, and advocates to bolster student parent work in the area.
Read MoreShe stared at the ground for seven seconds, footage from her family’s doorbell camera shows. At her feet was a swastika. Someone had cut the Nazi symbol out of purple construction paper, adding in permanent marker: HELL BOUND. HAVE FUN!
Read More“My prediction is that all the problems that we have on campus, the endless conflicts over words and clothing and food, these endless conflicts are coming to you in corporate America,” Haidt said. “Depends on the industry; I hear they’re already there in journalism and tech actually, but I think they’re gonna enter just about every industry. I mean, maybe not mining or something, but any industry that hires smart kids from the elite schools, especially in the Northeast and West Coast, is going to be importing this conflictual attitude.”
Read MoreAfter Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a rousing speech to U.S. lawmakers this week, Tucker Carlson unleashed a diatribe that put schoolyard sadists everywhere to shame. “No one’s ever addressed the United States Congress in a sweatshirt before,” he seethed, slamming Zelensky as a “strip club” manager whose presence was “humiliating” to “the greatest country on Earth.”
Read MoreZelensky's visit to the United States triggered an astonishing outpouring of raw vitriol from some of the most prominent right-wing voices in the land.
Read MoreJudging by its press since COVID began, you might think that married motherhood is a pathway to misery and immiseration. “Married heterosexual motherhood in America, especially in the past two years, is a game no one wins,” wrote Amy Shearn in one of many New York Times op-eds about the difficulties of marriage in the time of COVID.
Read MoreIn recent years, gender equity has stalled, and it's time for bold action, not just by consumers but by corporations whose buying power and influence exceed that of consumers.
Read MoreOur democracy is under siege. We find ourselves a nation divided between competing visions.
Many are committed to turning back the tide of change, through false claims of voter fraud, promotion of “replacement theory,” insistence on unrestricted access to guns and denial of woman’s rights. All of this in service of a vision of white supremacy, Christian nationalism, oligarchy, xenophobia, and censorship.
Read More“This report provides real data to reinforce the fact that student parents not only face more barriers than other students when it comes to earning a postsecondary credential but also significant financial barriers,” Nicole Lynn Lewis, founder and CEO of Generation Hope, said in a media release.
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