7 min 0 Arts Who gets to decide what counts as ‘disorder’? As a scholar of urban governance and data policy, I viewed the responses to protests… Read More
6 min 0 Arts Scrappy, campy and unabashedly queer, public access TV series of the 1980s and 1990s offered a rare glimpse into LGBTQ+ life “Hello to all you lovely lesbians out there! My name is Debbie, and I’m here… Read More
4 min 0 Arts An homage to the dad joke, one of the great traditions of fatherhood “Dad, I’m hungry.” “Hi, hungry. I’m Dad.” If you haven’t been asleep for the past… Read More
6 min 0 Arts Could Elvis’ Graceland hold a key to bridging America’s cultural divide? Nearly 50 years have passed since Elvis Presley died; save for an annual August observance… Read More
6 min 0 Arts Why India and Pakistan’s T20 cricket showdown in New York is such a big deal The U.S. national cricket team pulled off a shocking upset on June 6, 2024, by… Read More
6 min 0 Arts Spikes, seat dividers, even ‘Baby Shark’ − camping bans like the one under review at SCOTUS are part of broader strategies that push out homeless people Should cities be allowed to outlaw sleeping in public, even when there are no beds… Read More
5 min 0 Arts 5 young-adult fiction novels that explore LGBTQ+ teen lives In recognition of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, The Conversation reached out to Gabriel Acevedo and James… Read More
6 min 0 Arts Inside the rise and fall of one of the world’s most powerful writing groups The Romance Writers of America, once the world’s largest and most powerful authors’ association, filed… Read More
6 min 0 Arts Records of Pompeii’s survivors have been found – and archaeologists are starting to understand how they rebuilt their lives On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of… Read More
7 min 0 Arts There’s a strange history of white journalists trying to better understand the Black experience by ‘becoming’ Black A peculiar desire seems to still haunt some white people: “I wish I knew what… Read More