Sep 25 2018
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A famous act of political violence is often used to illustrate the utter collapse of civic norms in the run-up to…
Sep 18 2018
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Two hundred and seven years ago this September, novelist Fanny Burney—whose works include Evelina and Cecilia—had a…
Sep 4 2018
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Last summer, I received the first of a string of emails from Joseph Blaine, a man who wanted to share his story with…
Aug 31 2018
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The shearling jacket is the iconic fashion staple of the apocalypse. It’s protected Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead,…
Aug 20 2018
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The New York Times Magazine recently published a lengthy cover story on “The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon…
Jul 13 2018
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As Donald Trump arrived in the United Kingdom for his fawning Tory tour of monuments to power—tea at Windsor with…
Jun 16 2018
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Tiffany Haddish’s ever-growing Fuck List, a roster bounded only by how far you can dream while defying sexual…
Jun 8 2018
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For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic…
May 15 2018
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Anne Frank’s diary was particularly powerful in that she wrote about the mundanities of her life as a typical…
Mar 13 2018
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The so-called “Canadian Rosa Parks” will be immortalized on Canadian currency in Canada’s attempt to apologize for…
Feb 2 2018
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When we’re taught about the history of the feminist movement in the United States, it often highlights icons like…
Jan 17 2018
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Ever wanted to own a piece of history? How about a piece of something that happened a week and a half ago that…
Dec 22 2017
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On one hand, the Victorians were all for keeping the body hidden beneath layers of fabric and thinking of England…
Nov 19 2017
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Oct 6 2017
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I cannot believe how soothing I’m finding this video of a German man in full Medieval costume explaining how people…
Aug 16 2017
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In a Tuesday interview, Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that, two years after the state…
Aug 15 2017
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On Monday evening, protesters in Durham, North Carolina pulled down a Confederate monument that had stood in front…
Aug 12 2017
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The news was pretty goddamn depressing today–not only of the violent protests in Charlottesville, where one death…
Mar 14 2017
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It has come to my attention that HomeAway is currently holding a sweepstakes pegged to the release of Beauty and the…
Mar 13 2017
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Parents of students at South Mountain Elementary School were disturbed when they learned of an assignment recently…