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A new novel by celebrated Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka – Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth – is a major event. But some

What if, instead of pretending to care about the welfare of the elderly, we just wrote them off completely? A dose of satire about public attitudes toward seniors in the era of COVID-19.

In our neoliberal, corporate capitalist world, things fall into just two categories, the useful and the discarded. Useful things are exploited until used up, then moved to the other category and forgotten. In Taiwan, that includes children. Last week the Social Work Department with the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF) sounded an alert: the nation’s young are being eaten alive. Suicide and suicidal thoughts among teenagers are spiking. According to a survey of over 600 young peopl...

Berry Campbell is pleased to present its first exhibition of Frederick J. Brown since announcing the representation of his estate in 2020.  This groundbreaking exhibition curated by ...

House Judiciary Democrats wrote AG Merrick Garland to complain about the DOJs decision to defend Donald Trump in a defamation suit.

  On February 18th this year, cheers erupted around the world while viewers watched Nasa’s Perseverance robot land on Mars. It was the 10th-ever landing on the red planet, which began with the Soviet Union in 1971. Though located 300 million miles and a seven-month journey from earth, the planet has an interesting Irish link. One of the planets’ moons – Deimos – has an abyss called Swift Crater, in memory of the ramblings of Lemuel Gulliver, the pseudonym used by Jonathan S...

Stanford University recently threatened a liberal law student’s ability to graduate over a satirical post to an email listserv aimed at the campus chapter of the Federalist Society.

A NY woman who has accused Donald Trump of rape told the former President to get ready to wear an orange jumpsuit

A woman from the Hudson Valley who has accused Donald Trump of rape told the former President to get ready to wear an orange jumpsuit

Ziwe has always loved asking people questions. Maybe a little too much. "That was something I was penalized for in school — like, I was annoying," says the comedian in a video chat. "But now it serves a purpose." The 29-year-old New Yorker is known for her frank, funny conversations about sensitive issues, especially race. It all began with a YouTube series, "Baited," where shed needle her comedian friends by asking humorously uncomfortable questions like, "On a scale of Malcolm to Martin,...