A horrendous act of crime was committed in Kunming, a city in Southwestern China.  On March 1st, a group of men and women have their faces covered, ran into Kunming railway station and stabbed people...

So this is incredibly cool. On Friday, Grantland’s Zach Lowe reported the details of a forthcoming national basketball tournament open to all United States residents over the age of 18 and not an...

Since 2007, the General Assembly of the United Nation has proclaimed 20 February as “World Day of Social Justice.” This is a day member states of the UN are invited to devote the day to promoting awareness...

For the fourth time, your weekly break-down of pop culture stories that mattered. Progress: Lupita Nyong'o, who is pretty likely to have an Academy Award less than 48 hours from now, spoke frankly...

Though the weather might indicate otherwise, we’re just about a week away from soccer season again here in the United States.  The first week of Major League Soccer (MLS) kicks off next Saturday, March...

The XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia ended Sunday (Feb 23), much to the relief of networks that aren't NBC, and to the chagrin of people who were finally, slowly, falling in love with the idea...

Unless you haven't been out in public or on the Internet for at least three months (in which case, thank you for choosing my blog as your triumphant return to cyberspace), you know that Disney's Frozen...

It seems that during every Olympics the media acquires a brief fascination with the diets of the participants.  Typically what comes to mind are supposed performance-optimizing foods like PowerBars and...

Alright, so this post isn’t particularly related to the United States, but I think that it’s completely worth talking about.  In Egypt, reports of the re-emergence of forced “virginity testing”...

When we talk about activism on social media, we immediately think about the students uprising during the Arab Spring or Occupy Wall Street. We can easily think of democratically/politically motivated online...

The third installment of this weekly feature runs down the best and worst in this week's pop culture news, including Looking, a "living doll," and House of Cards. Progress: HBO's Looking (yes, four...

"My impression is that people needed a break from me," Anne Hathaway joked in a late-January Huffington Post interview. In 2012, when asked about her continued collaboration with abuser and ex-boyfriend...