Crowded Camps, Garbage Piles, Extreme Heat

Thousands of migrants and asylum seekers are facing desperate conditions as they continue to be held in makeshift camps under the Del Rio International Bridge in Texas, including high temperatures, squalid living conditions, probable deportation and shocking mistreatment by border patrol agents.   An estimated 14,000 migrants, including pregnant women […]

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Genders & Sexualities

Gender binary (also known as gender binarism, binarism, or ambiguously genderism) is the classification of gender into two distinct, opposite forms of masculine and feminine, whether by social system or cultural belief. Most cultures use a gender binary, having two genders (boys/men and girls/women). In this binary model, sex, gender, […]

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JoJo Siwa Makes ‘DWTS’ history

JoJo Siwa just made history on “Dancing With the Stars” as the first contestant to compete with a partner of the same sex. The “J Team” star, 18, danced a lively quickstep with pro partner Jenna Johnson, 27, during Monday night’s season 30 premiere, performing the upbeat routine to “Are […]

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COVID-19 Has Killed 675,000 Americans

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the flu cut a much bigger, more lethal swath through the country. But the COVID-19 crisis is […]

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