March 8th is traditionally observed around the world as International Women’s Day, but in light of the threat perceived by the current political administration, many are rebranding the observation as A Day Without A Woman. Labeled a “one-day demonstration of economic solidarity,” organizers are urging women, when possible, to take the day off from work, to…

People love to criticize moms for everything from breastfeeding in public to having c-section births to letting their kids wear jewelry. San Diego-based video blogger Tasha “Spiritual Tasha Mama” Maile has done her part to fight breastfeeding stigma and other forms of mom-shaming on her popular YouTube channel. But people thought Maile had gone too…

Normally when people on the Internet say “So-and-so destroyed so-and-so!” they’re being wildly hyperbolic. But yesterday on Twitter, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts absolutely body bagged fellow senator and presidential hopeful Ted Cruz. He got merc’d. Eviscerated. And Warren took him down with pure, cold facts. It started on Monday when Cruz sent out a…

Sexual harassment, shoddy background checks, price gouging, a verbally abusive CEO: Uber may be in the business of rideshares, but when it comes to legal troubles, you could say the company hoards them all to themselves. The latest came to a head in the UK, where courts ruled against Uber in favor of thousands of…

No matter how hard parents try to teach their kids to be tolerant and to feel free to express themselves, there’s a big world out there just waiting to put them in a box.  Even though society is slowly becoming more accepting of those who disregard traditional gender norms, children can still be very cruel….

President Barack Obama will be finally making a trip to Flint, Michigan—a city that has been fighting an ongoing water crisis since April 2014—next week, answering the request of 8-year old Flint activist, Mari Copeny. The young organizer, known locally as Little Miss Flint, wrote the president a letter in March asking him to visit…

One of the legal pathways to becoming a U.S. citizen is for immigrants to serve in the military. For some soldiers, that door is now closed. The Associated Press reports that several men and women who were serving in the U.S. military under a special immigrant recruiting program have been discharged, and some face deportation. An…

Every year during the NCAA’s College Basketball Tournament — more fondly known as March Madness — a “Cinderella” story emerges, and an underdog team wins our hearts and gets a chance to play in the big dance. One of the most exciting Cinderella stories in the Final Four happened in 2011, when Butler University fought…

There was a major twist ending and a major snafu at the very end of the 2017 Academy Awards for the category of Best Picture. The wrong winner was declared. If you look back on the footage and analyze it, you could read on Warren Beatty’s face that something was not right just before the Best Picture winner was announced. Typography is the…

Sam Gordon, the internet’s most famous female football player, still remembers the reactions at her first practice. The Utah eighth grader tried out for the boys tackle league in Salt Lake City when she was nine years old. “I was first in every single speed and agility drill. The coaches would look at their timer…