COLUMN: President Trump’s Saturday rally disrespects tradition
It is a stunningly ignorant stance that Trump cannot even stand to be in the same room as those he knows will criticize him.
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COLUMN: Arkansas raises death penalty debate
Put in Arkansas’ new terms, it is impossible to ignore the absolute disregard for human life the death penalty poses.
COLUMN: Ghost in the Shell’s flop is ironic
For too long has goodness and good art been associated with white men and women, and for too long has Hollywood’s producing practices been based on this unfounded mythology.
COLUMN: Journalism must not play into stereotypes
On Sunday morning, I woke up to the startling and tragic news of another mass shooting — this one having taken place at the popular Cameo Night Club in my hometown of Cincinnati. Though I have never been to this club, the news conjured up uncanny feelings of seeing my Ohio city dashed across national […]
COLUMN: Why did Sean Spicer’s xenophobia go ignored on social media?
Spicer does not deserve my respect because he is a racist. He’s a racist who knows the drastic consequences of his own words, and still he spouts them anyway.
COLUMN: Moonlight’s win offers hope in Trump era
At the 89th Academy Awards last Sunday, drama rocked the ceremony’s final minutes: In a move that shocked millions, it was announced that Moonlight had won Best Picture, not La La Land. In a debacle with details still to come, the La La Land producers were mid-speech when headphone-wearing producers rushed the stage. The real […]
COLUMN: The women of Saturday Night Live scare Donald Trump
Two Saturdays ago Melissa McCarthy stepped up to the Saturday Night Live stage dressed in a gray suit and high-forehead wig, unmistakably resembling Press Secretary Sean Spicer before she even walked up behind the mock White House podium. In the next eight minutes McCarthy delivered a scathing parody of Spicer’s press briefings, highlighting idiosyncrasies like […]
COLUMN: Super Bowl ads highlight diversity of the American Dream
Zoe Cheng writes about the impact of a Super Bowl that featured politically relevant commercials.
COLUMN: Political correctness is a conservative invention
The people who use this phrase, mainly white men, assert over and over again that they are the ones at risk of being silenced by the sensitive and overwrought left.