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Lowkey, Japan Still Has An Emperor

Emperor Akihito of Japan is retiring. There are still emperors in the world? Yeah, it's a thing. It's weird, but it's real. We humans aren't really as...

Let’s Not Talk About Those Fake ISIS Videos

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism broke a report that The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States' Department of Defense, paid British PR Firm Bell...
Marvel Villain Ideologies

He Ain’t Totally Wrong: Marvel Villain Ideologies I Can Respect

This piece contains some spoilers, but it’s been a hot minute since two of these movies came out and about a month since "Endgame"...

Native American Issues Just Aren’t Cool Enough

The Dakota Access Pipeline is fucked up. Period. The US government took Native American lands while they were sovereign, reissued them, and continues to abuse the them. It's...

Barcelona: When Sports Genuinely Get Political

Camp Nou seats nearly 100,000. That makes it the largest soccer stadium in Europe, and the second largest in the world. FC Barcelona, current La...
Chivona Newsome BLM Tigray Genocide

Hope and a Hiccup in BLM NY’s Recognition of the Tigray Genocide

Chivona Renee Newsome, co-founder of the Greater New York chapter of Black Lives Matter, spoke at a Tigray Genocide protest Sunday morning....

Sarkozy and France’s Burkini Ban Obsession

Western society is uncomfortable with women's clothing standards. France is uncomfortable with Islam. The push for a burkini ban carries the weight of both issues,...

The US’s 2016 Election Isn’t THAT Strange

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({ google_ad_client: "ca-pub-4070728875700136", enable_page_level_ads: true }); As we freak out about a...

I Don’t Know Who’s Running In My State Senate Race

Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor party (DFL) called me earlier this week. I was asked if I was voting for Dave-something and some other guy for seats...

All of LeBron’s Supporters in the LeBron/Trump Twitter Beef

Donald Trump took a break from threatening the stability of the world with his delicate ego to use his small Twitter fingers to criticize...