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Fox News Republished a Celebratory Video of “Cars Plowing Through Protesters”...
Fox News republished a video in January that appeared to celebrate cars hitting peaceful “liberal” protesters, apparently as payback for blocking streets. That video now appears to have been taken down...
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Trump Has Tweeted About Hillary More than 70 Times Since He Won the Election...
He just can’t quit her. It’s been 365 days since Donald Trump won the presidency and Crooked Hillary is still one of his favorite Twitter targets. To be fair, Trump did give former opponent Hillary...
View ArticleIt’s Been a Year Since the Election—What Did It Motivate You to Do?
Trump made me do it. On the night of Nov. 8, 2016, when it became clear that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was going to win the presidency, I felt this need to do something—take some...
View ArticleThe Foreign Press Is Having a Hard Time Translating “Shithole”
When news broke that President Donald Trump referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries as “shithole countries,” newsrooms across the country had to decide how to handle the expletive. (Trump...
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Kesha Delivered the Devastating #MeToo Moment the Grammys Needed
Janelle Monáe stepped out onto this year’s Grammy’s stage and didn’t lose a beat. Voicing a message of solidarity with fellow women in the industry, Monáe put the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements in the...
View Article“Crazy Rich Asians” Can’t Be Everything—But It’s Still a Win
Crazy Rich Asians debuted to crazy high expectations this week. Directed by Jon M. Chu, the film is one of the first major studio-backed productions to feature an Asian-majority cast in 25 years....
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Men Have Been Telling Women to Shut Up for at Least 3,000 Years
Since the dawn of Western culture, women have been mocked for their tone, bullied into staying quiet, or literally silenced. “More than that, as Homer has it, an integral part of growing up, as a man,...
View ArticleTrump Is “Acting Like A Mob Boss.” How Far Is He Really Willing to Go?
It happened: The Attorney General of the United States has been forced out. The resignation letter of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III hit the internet on Wednesday morning—even as votes continue to...
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Make—and Devour—the Dumplings from Pixar’s Oscar-Winning Film “Bao”
The Oscar-winning animated short film Bao centers on a cute little Chinese dumpling and his immigrant parents. Director and illustrator Domee Shi, who immigrated from China to Canada as a girl, says...
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For Pixar’s Domee Shi, “Write What You Know” Yielded a Strange, Magical...
Update (2/24/2019): Bao won! If you haven’t seen Bao, one of this year’s Oscar contenders for best animated short film, you’re in for a treat. Or not. In the film, the bao—which is a Chinese word for...
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