In A World Of Watered-Down 'Body Positivity,' The Tess Holliday Self Cover Is...
This week, Self magazine unveiled its first digital cover, featuring a surprising photo choice: plus-size model Tess Holliday, posing in diaphanous fuchsia, her bare back and one of her upper arms...
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How This Magazine Cover Sent A Man On A Journey To Find His Queer Asian Elders
Filmmaker Patrick G. Lee wasn’t expecting to come across any references to queerness while walking through New York’s Museum of Chinese in America. But there it was: the cover of a 1980 issue of Gay...
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Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' Is Coming To Netflix
Salman Rushdie’s critically acclaimed novel “Midnight’s Children” is getting a Netflix makeover.The streaming giant has announced it working on a new original series based on the novel, one of the...
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How Weed Edibles Are Shedding Their Stigma In The Food World
At one point in cannabis culture history, mastering the art of baking the perfect weed brownie was considered a rite of passage, but those days are long gone.Thanks to the development of medical...
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Scientists Find Key Ingredient For Life On Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Scientists have discovered another of the key ingredients needed to support life on Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus.Using data gathered from the ill-fated Cassini spacecraft, researchers found complex...
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Separated Parents Are Failing Asylum Screenings Because They’re So Heartbroken
BROWNSVILLE, Texas ― Jodi Goodwin has spent the past month helping grief-stricken parents with their asylum cases.On most days, the Harlingen, Texas-based immigration lawyer drives to the Port Isabel...
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Mexico Elects Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Mexico elected leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador in a landslide victory on Sunday, according to exit polls showing the former mayor with double-digit leads over his competitors.López...
View ArticleCapital Gazette Pens Gut-Wrenching Editorial Days After Shooting
Staffers at the Capital Gazette published a powerful editorial on Sunday in response to the deadly shooting that occurred at the newspaper’s Annapolis, Maryland, offices last week.Five Capital Gazette...
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Psychologists Pooh-Pooh One 'Incredibles 2' Plot Point
“Incredibles” is finally Bach! Wait, no, it’s Mozart.The sequel, which arrived 14 years after the original film, brought an even more grown-up version of the franchise’s signature parent-centric humor....
View ArticleSwaziland's LGBTQ Community Celebrates Its First Pride Parade
Swaziland, officially renamed eSwatini in April, held its first pride parade this weekend — marking a joyous, historic milestone for the southern African nation’s LGBTQ community.Photos and video...
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Facing Questions About Pricing From WB Govt, Uber Caps Surge Rates At 2.9X
Over the weekend, American taxi aggregator Uber stated that it will cap surge pricing during peak hours in West Bengal. This statement came in response to a set of 30 questions that the West Bengal...
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Maharashtra: In Yet Another Case Of Mob Violence, 5 Men Were Lynched On...
In yet another incident of lynching fuelled by rumours on WhatsApp, five people were killed in Maharashtra's Dhule district on suspicions of being child lifters.The Indian Express reports that they...
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Mandsaur Gang Rape: Right Wing Trolls Communalize Sexual Violence Against...
It is hard to imagine that the rape of an eight-year-old would evoke emotions other than profound sadness at the degeneration of Indian society, and anger at the state for failing to protect women and...
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Shujaat Bhukhari Killing: The Ghosts Of Editors Murdered, And Newspapers...
SRINAGAR — On April 23, 1991, a gunman walked into the downtown office of Shaban Vakil, the editor of Alsafa, and shot him dead.The killer was never conclusively identified, and, the once-feisty Urdu...
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Sanju: A Dishonest Biopic That Absolves Its Leading Man Of All Responsibility
Rajkumar Hirani's Sanju starring Ranbir Kapoor as Sanjay Dutt has shattered the previously-held record of Salman Khan's Tiger Zinda Hai, and earned an astounding Rs 120 crore in its opening weekend....
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Indian-American Woman, Seema Nanda, Appointed To Head DNC
Seema Nanda became the first Indian-American woman appointed as the CEO of the Democratic National Committee in recent history. “This position is the opportunity of a lifetime, for which I am...
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'We Cannot Live Here': Afghanistan's Sikhs Weigh Future after Suicide Bombing
KABUL - Many among Afghanistan's dwindling Sikh minority are considering leaving for neighbouring India, after a suicide bombing in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday killed at least 13 members of...
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Justin Trudeau Addresses Groping Allegations From 18 Years Ago
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded on Sunday to allegations that he groped a woman at a music festival in Creston, British Columbia, nearly two decades ago. “I remember that day in...
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The Vicious Trolling Of Sushma Swaraj Shows The Modi-Shah Project To Remake...
NEW DELHI — Sushma Swaraj's relationship with the chirping Twitterati was never painless. When Swaraj announced her presence on Twitter in December 2010, her nemesis appeared in the shape of Suhel...
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An Influx Of Traffic From Map Apps Is Changing Quiet Neighbourhoods
BENGALURU — In a small road that used to see little to no traffic, a line of cars is waiting impatiently in a traffic jam. Asim Sheikh is a real estate entrepreneur sitting in a Honda City. One car...
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