Was everyone terrible 30 years ago? And how should we talk about it now?
A review of the past week’s events leads to an exhausting question: Thirty years ago, how terrible were we? Over the past week or so, Liam Neeson admitted to once...
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Take your sons to see the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg movie
By the time the character of Marty Ginsburg donned his second apron in the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic, the audience imperative became clear, at least to me: Sure, take...
Look, maybe White House Christmas decor just isn’t Melania Trump’s thing, but that’s fine
Every time Melania Trump makes another odd gaffe, I can't help but see it as a useful thing for gender equality. It forces a conversation about how to measure the...
Lovestruck hero or creepy harasser? Suddenly we’re seeing our favorite rom-coms in a new light
Two years ago, film critic Sara Stewart sat down to rewatch "Sixteen Candles," one of her favorite 1980s John Hughes comedies. She was mortified. One scene, played for laughs --...
‘It’s fun to be scared’: Life and mortality at the carnival
If you believe a narrative that Americans are nihilistic ids who are test-piloting themselves toward their own inevitable doom, then there is probably hard evidence to be found at county...
Eternal pain forces mothers of slain black men to speak out for policing changes
All of their sons were dead, shot to death by policemen, and the mothers had come to Washington wondering if Washington would care. The hearing room on Capitol Hill was...
‘Snow White’ still a bad apple of feminism
Philosophical questions: 1. Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? And 2. Is a Snow White wearing a metal breastplate and brandishing a sword still Snow White?...
Rethinking the ‘Jon & Kate’ title
Rethinking the 'Jon & Kate' title Recent gossip and a pesky paparazzi ambush have detonated a marital-woe bomb in the world of "Jon & Kate Plus 8," the TLC reality...