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I’ve had a job since I was 14 years old. I’ve spent most of it working in the service industry. I have always been part of the working class here in America. The characteristics of the working class that apply to me are: food and beverage service, low to moderate income, and tipped hourly wages.

When Helena Stark decided to crochet her own wedding dress two months before her ceremony, she knew it would be a time crunch. She planned to chronicle her exhausting journey on her TikTok account (@squish.and.co), where she creates crochet and knitting content for half a million followers. “Because I am the queen of making rational

Lawmakers not only have an opportunity to derail the coming coronation and slow the damage—they have a constitutional duty to do so.

When President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden of tax evasion crimes for which no non-famous person would ever be prosecuted, every newsroom in America treated it like Christmas morning had come at Super Bowl halftime during Mardi Gras. Editors and producers at newspapers and television networks produced the kind of round-the-clock coverage more appropriate

When Nina first met her ex, she thought she had found her perfect match. She and her partner were both queer and building careers in creative industries, and those shared interests fueled a powerful bond in the early days of their relationship. But over time, he resented the way Nina’s writing career took off while

Within days of his election on November 5, Donald Trump, a man adjudicated liable for sexual abuse by a jury of his peers, nominated four men credibly accused of sexual misconduct for high-level cabinet positions in his impending administration. According to CBS News, Fox News host Pete Hegseth—Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense—paid a woman

As a scholar and professor of horror, history, and feminism, one of the questions I ask my students most often is when they think marital rape was criminalized in New York State. They usually guess around 1900, sometimes as late as 1950. But the truth is far more horrifying: Until the landmark New York case

On December 29, 2024, we lost Jimmy Carter—the one-time governor of Georgia and one-term president of the United States. At 100, he outlived his beloved wife, Rosalynn Smith, to whom he’d been married since 1946, and who died a year earlier, in November 2023. Beloved for his humanitarian work, Carter is often remembered as having

America’s descent into mass delusion isn’t happenstance. The demise of courageous journalism isn’t a happy accident. Its replacement with engagement-chasing infotainment and propaganda isn’t an error. It’s a global assault on reason and informed consensus, and corporations and authoritarian bullies like Donald Trump are both architects and benefactors. For decades, academics warned anybody who’d listen

On the anniversary of January 6th, far too many are trying to rewrite history.