The McMinn County School Board in Tennessee voted unanimously to remove Maus — a nearly perfect fictionalized depiction of the horrors of the Holocaust — from its 8th grade curriculum.
Right now, as I write this, dozens of them. They’re standing in Dealey Plaza in Texas in the formation of a giant Q, unmitigated idiocy on full display, waiting for their messiah to rise from the dead like an Easter…
“It might be fair to say that the Republicans are winning the culture wars they’ve ignited. It might also be fair to say that the cost of their victories comes in their own blood.” Not only was my statement accurate,…
When SCOTUS upheld Texas’ unconscionable anti-choice law, social media lit up with memes comparing the Lone Star State’s legislature to the central governing force of Afghanistan.
It might be fair to say that the Republicans are winning the culture wars they’ve ignited. It might also be fair to say that the cost of their victories comes in their own blood.
More than 1,300 unmarked graves have been discovered in Canada in just the last several weeks. These were Indigenous children,. These graves were on the grounds of church-run schools in Saskatchewan and British Columbia — schools that operated for decades…
In Israel today, there are far more questions than answers. After a bloody conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip over the Sheikh Jarrah/Shimon Ha’Tzadik neighborhood in East Jerusalem last May, tensions remain high.
For the last decade, we’ve watched the creeping death of expertise under the blade of poorly written memes, punditry disguised as news and served up as entertainment, and self-proclaimed citizen journalists with an iPhone, ring-light and a $50 microphone eviscerating…