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 ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate groups, called the KKK "the most infamous — and oldest — of American hate groups." The KKK's website states that the organization's ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year, high school juniors and seniors will buy a $100 calculator that's older than they are. You remember the TI-83: the brick-sized graphing machine you likely covered in stickers and used ...

When he's not holding rallies as part of his "thank you" tour, President-elect Donald Trump is working on his transition into the White House. A big part of that is choosing his Cabinet, the group ...

If men don't know basic facts about a woman's body, how can they legislate it? Sounds simple enough, and yet this message continues to fall on deaf ears in Congress, where the overwhelming ...

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 ...

Add these adult sports you can do outside to your summer activity list, whether you're up for some competition or just want to be active outdoors.

Back when I was still a single Tinderella, my co-workers and I would trade war stories from our evenings on the swipey. Once, as I lamented a dearth of matches, a male co-worker told me to chill ...

Harvard has revoked at least 10 prospective students' acceptance letters after it was discovered that the students shared racist and sexually explicit memes via a private Facebook group chat. The ...

Of course, we're talking about the plus-size section, where women who are a size 14 or larger are forced to shop. Some have blamed floor space in department stores for the lack of options for ...