In the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, the nameless black male protagonist says, “When I discover who I am, I will be free.” He spends the novel falling down a dizzying racial rabbit hole that bit by bit reveals for the reader the plight facing a black man in America. It’s a horrifying and […]
Politicians around the world are getting really creative in evading journalists. On Monday, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha brought out a life-sized cardboard cut-out of himself and told journalists to direct all questions toward it. “If you want to ask any questions on politics or conflict, ask this guy,” he said before walking away, according to […]
“Usually, after something like this happens, people are out on the streets working immediately. But this time, the government’s response has been very slow,” Luis Rodriguez, a resident of Caguas, Puerto Rico, told The New York Times in October. “The water comes and goes, comes and goes, and it’s just a trickle.” More than 100 days […]
Whether it’s pushing for building roads in remote areas of Alaska or walls on the nation’s southern border, the Trump administration has shown little concern for the potential harm caused by developing major infrastructure projects in wildlife refuges. In Alaska, Trump’s Department of the Interior reached an agreement to allow the construction of a road through the Izembek […]
Last November, Democrats gained control of the Washington state senate — and, with it, the entire state legislature and the governor’s mansion — when Democratic Sen. Manka Dhingra defeated her Republican opponent in a special election. On Friday, Gov. Jay Inslee and a handful of his fellow Democrats announced the voting rights agenda they hope […]
The Supreme Court of India announced Monday that it would reconsider its 2013 ruling upholding Section 377, a colonial-era law criminalizing same-sex sexual relations. A promising sign, the Court also asked the government to respond to a petition from five LGBTQ people who said they live in fear of police because of their identities. Section […]
Weeks before the 2016 presidential election, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a statement unprecedented in the organization’s history warning that Donald Trump represented a threat to press freedoms throughout the world. “A Trump presidency would represent a threat to press freedom in the United States, but the consequences for the rights of journalists around […]
By choosing a longtime corporate attorney to head the nation’s top energy regulatory agency, President Donald Trump stuck to his practice of nominating officials riddled with potential conflicts of interest to high-ranking roles in the U.S. government. As a partner with Jones Day, a prominent Washington, D.C. law firm, Kevin McIntyre’s ties to energy companies […]
So, how did Hollywood handle the first awards show of the post-Weinstein era? You could say much of the night was business as usual. The attire wasn’t exactly game-changing stuff. After all, those black gowns were still designer, not that anyone talked about that much on the red carpet. It’s nowhere near earth-shattering for celebrities to […]
On the Golden Globes red carpet, Emma Stone stood alongside Billie Jean King. Stone is nominated for best actress on Sunday night for her portrayal of King in the movie Battle of the Sexes. Both were dressed in black, as is the night’s chosen, though not uncontroversial, uniform of the evening. The women of Time’s Up, […]
On the red carpet at the Golden Globes, actress Debra Messing called out E! News for gender pay discrimination, while being interviewed on E! News. Messing was discussing the purpose of the “Time’s Up” campaign, an initiative started by “prominent actresses and female agents, writers, directors, producers and entertainment executives” to fight systemic gender inequality. […]
