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Abigail Fisher, the plaintiff in the latest round of affirmative action cases heard before the Supreme Court, is the perfect villain in a liberal morality play about the evils of racism. Fisher’s case before the Supreme Court, in which she demanded that she be admitted to the University of Texas at Austin despite not having the…
A group of caring canines and their human supporters gathered in Chinatown Friday to rally in protest of the annual Chinese dog eating festival in Yulin that starts next week. About 15 dogs paraded in front of the Wyndham Hotel on Bowery. Several were decked out in purple accessories — the color representing animal abuse…
Animal rights protesters gather in NYC’s Chinatown to protest the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, which opened today in Southern China. (Photo Credit: NY Daily News / Susan Watts) Since 2009, one festival in China has caused a stir in the animal rights community. The festival — the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival…
In case you haven’t heard, Captain America is a Nazi now and fanboys everywhere are losing their shit. Last week, issue 1 of Nick Spencer and Jesus Sais’ new comic series Captain America: Steve Rogers hit the shelves of comic stores everywhere and shocked fans across the nation when, in the final panel, Captain…
This past weekend, I found myself in the British borough of Luton, pondering a British exit from the European Union. “How did you find yourself in Luton?” you will ask, and I will reply, “That is a long story, and alas, a very dull one, so let’s just proceed upon the assumption that I was…
It was a bad time for Sen. Cory Gardner to be caught in an elevator with a reporter. Donald Trump had just referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts as “Pocahontas” — again — and the Republican freshman from Colorado was struggling to figure out how to respond. “I think people need to be treated…
Start Article Post Content Hollywood is no stranger to stereotype casting. “Scandal’s” Kerry Washington and “Master of None” star and executive producer Aziz Ansari have come face to face with this reality on multiple occasions throughout their careers. The actors swapped nightmare stories during a sit-down for Variety‘s fourth season of “Actors on Actors.” “Before ‘Scandal,’ I was actually…
Image caption “Mahalet and the honeymilk,” by Meg Griffiths, from the series Honeymilk End K2 Item Layout JoomlaWorks “K2” (v2.7.0) | Learn more about K2 at http://getk2.org //MAIN CONTENT SIDEBAR RIGHT //SIDEBAR RIGHT SPOTLIGHT 2 //SPOTLIGHT 2 In late March, Eater published a Hillary Dixler essay, “How Gullah Cuisine Has Transformed Charleston Dining.” The title was clickbait….
Donald Trump, whose campaign for president has crashed through one barrier after another, has again moved his candidacy into highly questionable territory, threatening to stir more racial animosity in an already divided country and putting at risk his party’s relationship with the nation’s fastest-growing minority group. Over the past week, Trump has repeatedly cited the…
Peer-to-peer, short-term housing platform Airbnb is probably my favorite consumer web company. A traveling member since 2011, my wife SACM and I have been hosting travelers too for most of the last year. I’m a proud and happy user. Yet I know that some of the loudest news about Airbnb in its last couple years of mainstream…