As places go, Iowa City is well-known for its liberal atmosphere and for good reason. Compared with much of the state — and the country — Iowa City is a surprisingly blue area for its size and location....

Ah, the Swamp. Not just any old swamp but the Swamp. Bane of our existence. As Shelley put it: “… Power, like a desolating pestilence,/Pollutes whate’er it touches; and obedience,/Bane of all...

A young star in the Democratic Party, a member of an oppressed minority, and a successful mayor — no, I’m not talking about Pete Buttigieg. Julián Castro is running for president. Castro served...

“It’s almost more humane to kill someone immediately than it is to intentionally bury a man alive.” This is how Thomas Silverstein experienced prison, and it provides a first-person view of the injustices...

The synthetic and auto-tuned femininity of such acts as Carly Rae Jepsen, Charli XCX, and Kim Petras are polarizing. Their sound returns to what worked in decades earlier, with tracks from Jepsen’s E•MO•TION...

A pedestrian, a stray cat, and a “scooterist” — without these three, I am certain that the whole of Tel Aviv would spontaneously combust. Even though my walk from the bus stop to work is only three...

“To be, or not to be, that is the question.” The line has been spoken countless times by some of the world’s top actors. Yet, with each utterance, it is said with a whole new meaning. Similarly the...

“I believe in the gay power. I believe in us getting our rights, or else I would not be out there fighting for our rights … I have been thrown in jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment...

June is LGBTQ Pride Month in commemoration of New York’s Stonewall riots, which took place on June 28, 1969. In the years that followed that date, the concept of pride and how it is represented, not...

The history of Asian Americans in Hollywood is rocky to say the least. From being simply missing from the silver screen to being recast and whitewashed to being trapped in inauthentic roles, Asian Americans...

My taxi driver pulled out his phone and began checking his stocks while weaving in and out of traffic on the freeway that leads into central Tel Aviv. It’s like he knew that the jet lag would cloud...

Say, Doc Grammar, What say you about these Mexican tariffs? Loco o bueno? Dear Say, Say Hey. (In acknowledgment of the greatest baseball player of all time.) No hablo trade stuff. But. Doesn’t it...