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12/21/2014 Font: – + The End of Tolerance? Anti-Muslim Movement Rattles Germany By SPIEGEL Staff REUTERS Members of the loosely organized “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West,” gather at a major protest in Dresden in eastern Germany on Dec. 8. Disenchanted German citizens and right-wing extremists are joining forces to form a protest…
A man is being investigated for felonious assault after striking another man over the head with a chair, as seen in an Instagram video, posted May 5, 2015. By Brian Ries2015-05-06 16:38:50 UTC An Instagram video captured the shocking moment a man viciously clobbered two gay men over their heads with a chair at a…
Miley Cyrus has changed, just a little, from her Hannah Montana days. We can’t quite put our finger on what is different about her. Maybe it’s the short hair or the constant tongue-wagging or the dilated pupils.Whatever it is, she seems to be heading in a good direction. Cyrus made a media splash on Tuesday—not…
Peaceful protesters have been pleading their case against police brutality for months in Baltimore. I kept hearing people say, “Baltimore is not Ferguson,” meaning, I suppose, that we do not repress our issues of wealth and racial disparity or deny them. Baltimore, after all, has been a city in recovery for half a century now….
Baltimore did not need more negative publicity this week. But in a bit of fateful timing, the Equality of Opportunity Project of Harvard University has released two papers concluding that the income mobility for poor children in Baltimore City is worse than in any large county in America. Every year spent in Baltimore “reduces a…
The arguments over Black Widow have gotten ugly. Last night, Joss Whedon quit Twitter, with an image that pointed the blame at Twitter haters. But there’s a real issue with Black Widow, and her role in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and it’s worth talking about. It’s worth talking about it like adults. After Whedon abandoned…
By now you’ve probably noticed that a lot of prominent feminists on Twitter have new hand-drawn avatars on their accounts. It’s no accident that they all have a similar style. All the art has been created by the hand of one talented artist: Kiva Bay. The Mary Sue recently had a chance to chat with…
Today in “This is why we can’t have nice things” — Joss Whedon has left Twitter. After a blockbuster weekend for “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the writer and director took an abrupt leave of social media Monday. In his final two tweets, he posted, “Now I may me down to sleep, I pray the lord…
When Oscar Grant was shot by transit cop Johannes Mehserle in Oakland in the early hours of January 1, 2009, a week passed with no institutional response, while videos of Grant’s murder spread on YouTube like a prairie fire. Then people rebelled, rioted, and took over the streets of Oakland twice—on January 7 and January 14—and just…
Last May, the first women to edit the New York Times and Le Monde were very publicly forced out of their jobs within a few hours of each other. What followed was perhaps just as surprising as the events themselves: a viral national debate about a previously little-noted problem, the incredible paucity of women running…