Culture

A Parisian shrug at the dalliances of the rich and powerful marks one as sophisticated. An affair carried out with the insouciance of Ilhan Omar and her lover Tim Mynett demonstrates the shameless embrace of […]

A Pennsylvania state appeals court on Tuesday upheld a man’s misdemeanor conviction for pointing a finger gun at his neighbor during an argument. Stephen Kirchner, 64, was found guilty of disorderly conduct and ordered to […]

The Rockland County Republican Party has drawn fire for posting — and subsequently deleting — an anti-Semitic video that warned about Hasidic Jews replacing “our families.” The Forward reports that the video was produced to […]

A man who posed with a fake shotgun and urged people to “stand up” has been convicted of stirring up religious hatred against Muslims. Jay Davison talked about “Aryans” and wrote “heil, heil, heil” in […]

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 […]