It’s safe to assume that few moviegoers went to see It this weekend looking for a treatise on race in America. Most went to be terrified by the demon clown introduced in Stephen King’s 1986 ...

Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) are big news in 2014. If Scarlett Johansson's Sodastream fiasco didn't grab your attention, perhaps the American Studies Association's boycott of Israeli ...

It's always nice to see a corporation with a clearly non-American name on the list of the top companies that receive subsidies from American taxpayers, and Royal Dutch Shell certainly fits that ...

Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade sampled a few artists but one of the most striking, memorable samples came from the voice of civil rights leader Malcolm X. Lemonade is about the power and ...

Black is the author of IBM and the Holocaust, a 2001 bestselling book that was written in secrecy and released at the same time that a class-action lawsuit was filed against IBM on behalf of ...

This trend is fascinating, in part because there's long been a taboo associated with people (particularly, women) choosing to opt out of parenthood. Women who choose not to have kids have been ...

On the 40th anniversary, 63% of Americans stated that they do not want to see Roe v. Wade overturned. With the overwhelming majority holding firmly in support of abortion rights for the second ...

In the online art workshops of the white nationalist alt right, young neo-Nazis and neo-fascists trade simple aesthetic tips: Consider your color scheme in advance, build your image in sections of ...

Surprise: There are zero reported cases of this happening. Several states, including Arizona, Florida, Texas and Kentucky, have considered or are considering enacting so-called "bathroom bills ...

The 2016 Rio Olympic Games was the birthplace for many firsts. But when it came to Muslim women in the coverage of the 2016 Olympics, a great deal of it was focused on how female athletes who wore ...

The opening voiceover of Dirty Dancing sets the scene as a simpler, more peaceful time — a last gasp of innocence for both Frances “Baby” Houseman and for the country. “That was the summer ...

And it may just be that — the paring down of things — that is exactly why we're so obsessed with the tiny, controllable things. People "have so much more cognitive overload than we ever used ...