Since the recession came and “went,” we’ve grown accustomed to hearing just how expensive subsistence has become. Housing, education, and other basic expenditures have increased faster than the rate of inflation, putting stress on individuals and families — Millennial households in particular.
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It was the shot heard round the world: Breitbart writer and Gamergater Milo Yiannopoulos was permanently banned from Twitter.
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POP PRINCESSES COME AND GO, but Taylor Swift is determined to stay.
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ON JULY 12, Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential candidate. The endorsement provoked outrage in Sanders supporters, many of whom vowed to write in the candidate’s name at the polls in November.
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It’s been ten years since Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston split and Brangelina rose from the ashes, but media coverage of Aniston’s life and relationships continues to draw on the circumstances surrounding her high-profile breakup. In a recent Huffington Post op-ed, Jennifer Aniston proved she’s all of us, and we need more of it.
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Well, no one’s shot each other yet, but the Republican National Convention has already taken aim at Hillary Clinton, but in a pretty circuitous way. Apparently, Melania Trump’s plagiarism of Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC speech is all Hillary’s fault.
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AMERICAN CULTURE has an obsession with its superheroes.
Since the days when Superman first flew onto the scene, they’ve draw the biggest appeal at the box office, held our attention week after week on TV, and populated the pages of novels and comic books alike.
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Jennifer Siebel Newsom, creator of the 2011 documentary Miss Representation, which delved into the objectification of women in media, turned her focus to masculinity in The Mask You Live In.
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“WE MUST NOT confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process…
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AFTER the UN’s Millennium Development Goals for equality were left unfulfilled in 2015, UN Women created a roadmap to 2030, along which 17 new goals…
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JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT Iceland couldn’t get any cooler, women across the nation join forces, en masse, in a social media movement designed to eradicate cattiness…
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“DEMOCRATS DON’T CARE about fighting Zika.” That’s the message headlines are spouting in the wake of a failed bill — bearing the clumsy title…
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