Familiar Avalos: AMLO’s Stage Fright

McCain was witty and likable, an avenue for which Americans could ignore a nasty, partisan reality.

In many ways, the 2018 version seems to function as the story but of Gaga herself–only told in reverse.

“Those bullets were meant for me,” Bobi Wine told me.

Despite the numbers, feeling comfortable identifying as first-generation low-income (FGLI) is a challenge that we still face.

“You're not supposed to ask, ‘will it really work?’ or ‘what about the disemployment effects?’ Those are not comments that people, in almost any society, would look upon with pleasure.”

“We were essentially being helicoptered into communities we weren’t necessarily familiar with.”

Given the importance of the Peabody Museum to the science community at Yale, Bass’s donation promises to be transformative to both the museum and the university’s STEM program.

For the typical working resident in cities like Beijing and Shanghai, buying a house with the wages earned from working an average-paying job can be nearly impossible.

Calling for further investigation in cases which do not have sufficient evidence for the party to make a decision is the only way for Democrats to respect the nuances of different situations, and respect the victims who have brought them to the fore.

Mongolia today prefers to align itself with Russia rather than China, following earlier Soviet-era models.

“Any Department of Education regulations that would detract from universities’ incentives to ensure such a climate would be a step backward, not forward.”

For these former Soviet states, redefining and rediscovering past cultures has been difficult, especially with the shadow of Russia still looming large.

“At any time,” he said, “it could be any one of us for whatever reason.”

Headlines and the few sentences that follow are often all it takes for a reader to form an opinion before moving to the next story.

What does the simultaneous increase in government power and growing public mistrust of government mean for China’s regime?

They’re running out of money for caskets.

The “movement existed before ‘Abolish ICE’ and it’ll continue to exist even if people stop being mad about ICE on social media.”

“Prison is a place where you don’t really get to be vulnerable, so education in prison creates vulnerability.”

A new proposal designed to encourage couples to have more children, by implementing what has been dubbed a “childless tax,” has incited warranted public outcry.

BlacKKKlansman is the story of a bond between two men, each on the periphery of whiteness, defining their identities in the face of hatred.

She was running on a vision: a vision for a truly progressive New York, with universal healthcare, an end to homelessness, and a host of other idealistic policies.

I also know that there are local narratives concealed from my neighbors and me, histories willfully forgotten because nobody wanted to remember them.

In classic, self-righteous fashion, as per usual with Eminem, he has gone about retribution in his own way.

I will never again call myself a C.K. fan. You haven’t taken the time to listen to your victims, so I will not take the time to listen to you.

“You don't get to psychoanalyze me like I'm sitting on a couch with you. The minute we start doing that, there's no more conversation."

Presenting snapshots of last week's Solidarity with Survivors march and rally

“There’s a pretty noticeable divide... in college football media, between those who believe in the NCAA’s concept of amateurism and those of us who are sane, rational human beings.”

"We didn’t win the freedom to marry as a gift from the Supreme Court.”

"I aspire to understand all points of view whether they come from the progressive-Bernie Sanders-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-Left or the Ben Sasse-Jeff Flake-Right or the Donald Trump-whatever-that-is."

Views from inside the CT gubernatorial race.