Our Sunday Comics author takes a look at Louisiana's Reality TV boom and the state governor embracing it.
Twenty years after the United Nations declared violence against women to be a violation of their human rights, we are still a long way from gender violence becoming unacceptable in a society
Thousands of soldiers, mostly women, have been the victims of rape and sexual assault in the American military. Politicians and the Pentagon are worried about the growing epidemic of this behaviour. All twenty women Senators decided “enough was enough”
It is in everyone’s long-term interest to stop purposefully undermining developing democratic processes.
In a stance riddled with contradictions, Men’s Rights activists in the US lay the blame for their own oppression at the door of feminism, Michael Kimmel argues
When confronted with the question of how much killing is enough the answer is always more (c.f. Blair’s calls for the west to enter the Syrian civil war). If a strategic sufficiency of death were realisable, killing would not stop. It would not even stop if one side exterminated the other.
In Newark, New Jersey, inquiries into an applicant’s criminal history are delayed until a conditional offer of employment is made.
Clarion calls on social media for action in Africa have once again become an excuse to flex military muscle, as the rhetoric of 'humanitarian' interventions is increasingly outfitted with the tactics of the war on terror.
In dialogue with feminist, queer and transgender groups, the Challenging Male Supremacy Project works with male activists to raise consciousness and strengthen practices of accountability in order to counter the harms of male violence and privilege, and build broader struggles for transformative j
Our Sunday Comics columnist serves us with a round of the latest, tasteless trends in American consumption
