The T-Word
Media depictions of trans culture seem more prevalent than ever, but off-key representations sensationalize and injure their subjects. It’s time to change that. Five transgender people discuss how.
Archive
A collection of 14232 issues
October 28, 2014
* In a rare, school-specific survey, 17% of female MIT students and 5% of male students report being sexually assaulted. * Ebola vaccines must be tested, but administering frontline workers a placebo could be unethical. * In distancing themselves from an unpopular president, midterm candidates have succeeded only in disowning their own
October 27, 2014
* For the first time in the history of independent Ukraine, the pro-Russian Communist Party failed to win the votes needed to enter parliament. * Latin America has the highest concentration of compulsory-voting states—a policy suppressed elsewhere for fear of union power. * Following controversial Ebola quarantine of health worker
Terminal Bar
Portraits of the hustlers, businesswomen, singers, and teachers who were regulars at one of Manhattan’s most notorious dives.
October 24, 2014
* New York City has an Ebola patient; officials tracing every contact he made, including while bowling in Williamsburg. * Health workers in Texas use Tabasco during training for its tingling properties, to say if they've been contaminated. * Confessions of an Ebola thrillist. * Some US hospitals considering whether to withhold
Alternate Forms for Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18
The Bard’s most famous sonnet very nearly wasn’t a Shakespearean sonnet. Rejected pairings of content and form, from rondelet to an acrostic hiding his name.
October 23, 2014
* Shooter in Ottawa kills a soldier in what the PM calls a "terrorist" act—the suspect was recently designated a "high-risk traveler." * Canada's CBC News covered the shootings in a way US news no longer can: with respect and care for the facts.
Back to Skol
NFL star Randy Moss is now a high school coach. A Vikings fan explains how watching one childhood hero move on with his life helps him say goodbye to another.
October 22, 2014
* ISIS claims to have received a US weapons drop meant for Kurdish fighters. * Reports indicate ISIS struggles to meet basic needs of residents, who are kept in line by fear of reprisals. * Political scientists fail to understand why countries sign human rights treaties they have no intention of following. * After
Sarah, You Can Drive My Car
Updates to news stories that have slipped off the front page. This week: male birth control, Sarah Palin, hydraulic fracking, the Beatles, and more.