Lizard people: the greatest political conspiracy ever created
WebNov 5, 2014 · A boy and a lizard. 2j architecture via Shutterstock. Alex Abad-Santos is a senior correspondent who explains what society obsesses over, from Marvel and movies to fitness and skin care. He came ...
Why are textbooks so expensive? - Vox
WebMar 6, 2019 · Publishers say digital options make textbooks cheaper. Affordability advocates say it increases their stranglehold on the market. Textbook costs increased 88 percent between 2006 and 2016 ...
What was Gamergate? The lessons we still haven’t learned - Vox
WebJan 20, 2020 · Among these was Gamergate, the year-long harassment campaign from 2014 to 2015 that eventually became subsumed into the greater rise of the alt-right movement online. Several viral threads posited ...
The Reagan administration's unbelievable response to the …
WebDec 1, 2015 · When the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in the 1980s, the Reagan administration's first reaction was chilling: It appeared to treat the epidemic as a joke. In a new documentary short by Scott Calonico ...
What is woke: How a Black movement watchword got co-opted in …
WebOct 9, 2020 · A few years later, the phrase “stay woke” turned up as part of a spoken afterword in the 1938 song “ Scottsboro Boys ,” a protest song by Blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly ...
Safe spaces, explained - Vox
WebJul 5, 2016 · No space can ever be 100 percent safe — but this is much more true for some groups of people than others. As Vox’s Alex Abad-Santos observed, "The feeling of safety in a gay bar and actual ...
The perfect college experience is a myth - Vox
WebJul 27, 2021 · Xorah, a 16-year-old community college student pursuing her associate’s degree in early childhood education, told me that this myth of the “traditional” college student is “a part of this ...
40 charts that explain money in politics - Vox
WebJul 30, 2014 · 29) Most members of Congress are millionaires. Center for Responsive Politics. This table from OpenSecrets.org shows the median net worth of members of Congress — about $1 million. The median ...
Merriam-Webster has a new definition of “racism” - Vox
WebJun 10, 2020 · Merriam-Webster’s current definition of racism reads: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of ...
Calvin and Hobbes ended 20 years ago. Here’s how it changed
WebDec 30, 2015 · Culture. Calvin and Hobbes ended 20 years ago. Here’s how it changed everything. It and The Far Side both closed up shop in 1995. But their legacies live on. By Emily St. James @emilyvdw Dec 30 ...
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