When we used to be sent downstairs to the basement to clean it, my mother impressed a certain belief onto my siblings and I. Groaning and grumbling, not wanting to really get down into the work, we did...
There’s a general idea, repeated whenever someone the public perceives as “good” is outed as “bad” — never meet your heroes. There are too many reddit threads about the rudest celebrity encounters...
Times sure are strange. The creeping vine of history wound around the podium at the Russia-U.S. summit in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin stood side...
It seems a little silly to explain the virtue of so-called bad media to the internet as an audience, because, it seems, it’s finally been accepted into the realm of the sanctified. The Room (Oh hi, Mark,)...
When you think of the word HIV, what comes to mind? ACT UP in the ‘90s? Leather vests and pink triangles? Grainy protest footage and political funerals? You’d be right, in a way. That is the history...
Well, hi there. I guess it might be kind of hard for me to explain who I am. Let’s see — well, you’ve seen ‘A Christmas Carol’, right? No, it doesn’t matter if it was the Jim Carrey version,...
You’ve probably seen Lil Miquela. She has brown hair, done up in two space buns, and a light dusting of freckles across the bridge of her nose. She can often be seen, in her copious Instagram posts,...
Multiple journalists are dead in Annapolis. What could I say, really? When I saw the news, I froze for a moment. My heart, like every other time these kinds of tragedies strike, grew so heavy. But only...
If you feel a pang of yearning when you see an abandoned mitten lying in the snow, someone’s commemorative wedding shirt in a thrift store, or the tags on your garage sale suitcase still bearing an old-sounding...
When you were younger, the favorite question among the adults was probably something along the lines of “What do you want to do when you grow up?”Or, if the adults were feeling a little subconsciously...
I like to think of myself as the kind of person who will try to stay neutral in most political conversations and thoughts. After all, I’m not one to take sides in most things, anyway. (I refuse to make...
I was afraid to sit down and write this column. I made myself tea. I steadied my hands. Now I’m sitting here, and I’m still scared. I’m avoiding telling you the reason you came here to read this,...
