Talking to Myself

For more than a year, I've been hearing rumblings about the Trans Pacific Partnership , or TPP, a troubling new international trade deal...

Watch this. It takes a whole hour, but it's worth it: http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2014/11/25 If you'd rather watch or read...

Back in May, Paste Magazine reported that there were only 13 feminist bookstores left in the United States and Canada. These were: Antig...

Okay, so some time ago I was walking right before Big Trash Day in my neighborhood and found a slightly garish but very cool table lamp sitt...

Tuesday night's horrifically botched execution of 38-year-old Clayton Locket caused the postponement of another execution scheduled for ...

Sadly, I'm not much of a cook. As a little girl, I was so focused on resisting femininity that I resisted acquiring this useful skill as...

A little less than a week ago, the US National Academy of Sciences and the British Royal Society jointly issued a report on the causes and e...

The other day I was just telling someone an excellent collection of essays called Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans, and Perverts b...

In honor of my friends Bailey and Stefan , I'm posting this video about how climate change works: The site How Global Warming Works ...

However evil Google might be, they do a few cool things. One of them is the periodic Google Doodle , which honors some notable person or ev...