Culture

Laurie Sheck is a professor of creative writing at the New School in New York, a decades-long veteran of the classroom, a widely published novelist and essayist, and a Pulitzer nominee. She’s also spent the […]

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against the state of Idaho and said they must provide transgender surgery to an inmate who was convicted of a sex crime against an underage victim. […]

Doomsday preppers — people who prepare and stockpile for society-upending disasters both natural and manmade — have been on the rise in the US in recent decades. British criminology professor Michael Mills travels throughout the […]

A Massachusetts man risked his own life to save a torn and tattered American flag that had been lying on a busy highway during rush hour, with cars driving through it. James Deely, a 33-year-old […]

Idaho’s Republican governor vowed Friday that his state would not pay for the gender reassignment surgery of a convicted sex offender after an appeals court ruled the state was responsible for providing the $20,000 to […]

A Canadian father is receiving a human rights complaint for asking about a babysitter’s gender. A single father in Canada may have violated his province’s human rights act by asking about the gender and age […]

From childhood, American children are taught that whatever the contest – be it softball, hopscotch, soccer or track – you shake your opponents’ hands and say some version of “good game,” regardless of whether you […]

Alexander G. Dial was among 13 people arrested during Saturday’s protests in Portland, Oregon — and only one of two booked into Multnomah County Jail, KOIN-TV reported. Dial, 37, was charged with attempted assault, unlawful […]

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar rushed to the defense of LGBTQ Palestinians who want to organize in the West Bank. The Minnesota Democrat shared a message from alQaws, a Palestinian organization fighting for sexual and gender […]

A pair of Proud Boys was convicted Monday of roughing up members of an anarchist group that confronted them on the Upper East Side last year. Maxwell Hare and John Kinsman were found guilty of […]