Culture
I think many of us have often asked, when we saw someone being bullied as a child, what would make that person decide whether to lash out and become a bully themselves, or
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March 20, 2017 // 0 Comments
Yet again, I’m called upon to redress strawmen, because unfortunately many reasonable people seem, against all efforts to the contrary, to hear something that those of us
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March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments
For far too many women across the world, enduring street harassment is a fact of life. From getting catcalled to groped to followed home, there’s a good chance that even if
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March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments
The conclusion of the Second World War allowed Akira Kurosawa to explore his creative ambitions by producing films that not only became cinematic masterpieces, but also held
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February 21, 2017 // 0 Comments
I purchased my first home almost one year ago. Besides the steep learning curve of home financing, plumbing and electrical systems, and texturing walls, I have begun to pay
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February 14, 2017 // 1 Comment
I normally don’t like list-based articles. They’re ways of effectively turning creative thought into an assembly line of pithy, separate insights, preventing the need for
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February 7, 2017 // 0 Comments
Nearly 8 years ago, one of then-newly-inaugurated US president Barack Obama’s earliest executive orders reversed the global gag rule, a rule banning non-governmental
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January 31, 2017 // 1 Comment
With a new Republican majority, those of us who care about the poor are steeling for a new round of cuts to benefits. To his credit, Trump didn’t run
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January 24, 2017 // 0 Comments
Imagine floating through the vacuum of space untethered, removing your pressurized helmet, and, with the remaining air in your lungs, summoning a blood-curdling wail. Say,
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January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments
I like to read on the toilet. It’s a pretty common trait, I know, but it facilitates a time of introspection when the mind is completely unoccupied except for a biological
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January 3, 2017 // 0 Comments
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