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Photo Protesters rallied outside the Capitol against House Bill 2 in Raleigh, N.C., last month. Credit Ray Whitehouse for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday warned North Carolina state officials that they would lose millions of dollars in federal funding unless they change the controversial measure limiting access to bathrooms…
Iranian women display their ink-stained fingers after casting their ballot to vote in the second round of parliamentary elections. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images) A record 17 women were elected to Iran’s parliament after a run-off election on Friday — the highest number of women elected since the 1979 Islamic revolution. The election, held in parts of…
Two weekends ago, after Beyoncé released a mythologically forceful visual album that attached the most significant art of her career to the narrative of her husband Jay Z cheating on her with a woman she called “Becky with the good hair,” the fashion designer Rachel Roy—presumably operating of her own volition—inserted herself in that narrative…
(Amy King/The Washington Post; images from iStockphoto) There is a lie we like to tell ourselves, a bending of the truth that permeates most of the food world in the West. We like burgers and fries, and other quintessentially American dishes, but we also love foreign cuisines, the vast and varied bucket of foods we rush to…
Photo Donald J. Trump, right, appeared with family members on NBC’s “Today” show in Manhattan on Thursday.Credit Richard Drew/Associated Press Updated, 8:37 p.m. | Donald J. Trump said Thursday that transgender people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable with — including at Trump Tower in New York. Dipping into a…
Two New York Times employees are suing the newspaper, citing “an environment rife with discrimination based on age, race, and gender”. The class action lawsuit comes the same week that Curt Schilling accused ESPN of a culture of racism. Schilling was recently fired from his role as a commentator at the sports channel after making…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump slammed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, saying,”the only card she has is the woman’s card.” (Reuters) “Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote. The only thing she’s got going is the woman’s card,” Trump said Tuesday night, after winning 5 primaries. Ah…
Multiple sources have publically alleged that DC Comics editor Eddie Berganza has a history of sexual harassment. Following news that Vertigo executive editor Shelly Bond was fired after more than 20 years at the company as part of an ongoing restructuring of the imprint, Loser-City website co-founder Nick Hanover and Rosy Press editor Janelle Assellin noted that…
It’s been quite the month for DC Entertainment. Announcing that they would be restructuring their Vertigo imprint—the home to such iconic, mature-readers game changers as The Sandman and Preacher—DC also revealed the dismissal of longtime Vertigo editor, Shelly Bond. Bond, who began as an assistant editor in the imprint’s first year, has been with the…
I have two cyborg implants. One is in my hand, and it lets me unlock phones and doors by waving at them. The other is in my uterus, and it lets me control my own fertility. In the space between my left pointer finger and thumb is an RFID microchip, a small glass capsule about…