My biggest question regarding 2021’s egregiously bungled and boring Oscar telecast is…if an awards show collapses but no one is watching, does it make a sound? Interest in the Oscars has been in steep decline for years now, and after suffering through the entire three hour and twenty-minute show last …
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In screenshots of a Snapchat message group, which was titled “N*gger Auction,” the Aledo Independent School District (ISD) students could be seen offering various amounts of money for black peers. One student offered “100 bucks” for a classmate, while another student offered $1 for a boy called Chris, claiming he …
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The suit, which was filed this week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, accuses the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) of breaching its responsibility to students by letting teachers dictate when schools shuttered amid Covid-19 pandemic can reopen. The other defendants, the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union and …
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Billed as a “diverse week of comprehensive, queer-inclusive, culturally-specific, sex-positive sexual health events and conversations,” Tulane’s ‘sex week’ contained some understandable topics like one on safe sex, another on “reconnecting with your sexuality after trauma,” as well as some predictably woke happenings to prove the school’s promise of “diversity.” One …
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US President Joe Biden buckled under pressure on Tuesday night, pulling Neera Tanden as his nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget. This is not unique, because every president since Bill Clinton has had at least one cabinet nominee shot down. But there are a few things that …
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“We’ve introduced further safety measures following a number of positive cases,” a spokesperson for Her Majesty’s Prison Service confirmed to British media on Wednesday, amid reports that three inmates at House Block 1 at Belmarsh have tested positive for the virus. Assange has been held at the high-security prison in …
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The US is obviously a drastically different place in 2020 than it was in 1776, when thirteen colonies declared their independence from the British crown. Yet for all the dramatic changes in the shape and size of the country, the number and diversity of people living in it, or the …
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A seven-foot statue of Medusa holding a man’s severed head was unveiled in New York this week. For six months, this sculpture, made by the Argentinian-Italian artist Luciano Garbati, will be situated facing the Manhattan Supreme Court, where Harvey Weinstein was prosecuted and convicted of sex crimes against actresses and …
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“Looking forward to speaking with the great Rush and guests,” Trump said Thursday afternoon in response to a message by journalist Jack Posobiec, who tweeted that the president would host Limbaugh’s show on Friday as a “virtual MAGA rally.” Limbaugh announced earlier Thursday on his show that Trump would join …
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The story that came out of Durham University this week, where I work as a lecturer in sociology, was as depressing as it was predictable. A group of wayward posh fresher lads were looking forward to their university experience and had formed a Whatsapp group called ‘Durham Boys Making All …
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