by Kate Harveston Recently, Catt Sadler of E! Entertainment announced she would be leaving the position after 12 years. The reason? E! Entertainment paid her half of what her E! News co-host Jason Kennedy was earning. Despite negotiations, she was unable to earn higher, despite ...read more
by Kate Harveston In these days of political turmoil and intensifying partisan divide, it's difficult to keep track of the facts. Corporate-owned media outlets on both ends of the political spectrum market their material as unbiased and factual, all while distorting reality for ...read more
As the Democratic Party shifts further away from the center, an emerging narrative is that this might not be the best idea for recapturing the more conservative parts of America from a Republican Party that has become dangerously unstable: Enter a group called New Democracy, a ...read more
It has been said by any number of pundits over the past few years that Ronald Reagan could not win the presidential nomination of the current Republican party. But even though the man himself may be considered a dangerous liberal by members of the "Freedom Caucus" and other ...read more
I know you are but what am I? It's a classic come back for kids who want to turn the table on name callers, or who just don’t have anything better to say. And for kids, it often works! When grown adults lean on similar rhetorical devices to redirect, however, it's not funny or ...read more
I grew up in Clapham, south London in the 1980's, and have clear memories of what the city felt like. It was an intimidating, yet often warm and exciting city jammed with people of different color, religion and social class. When I was little, I went to an inner city state ...read more
Remember when Pat Buchanan wrote that African-Americans should be grateful to white America, you know, because of food stamps, Section-8 housing and Christian salvation? Whenever someone like Buchanan begins a sentence with the premise that Underprivileged Group-X should be ...read more
You've likely read at least 15 articles and essays in the past year that hysterically declared, “All the artists are leaving San Francisco and moving to the East Bay!” Although people have been complaining about that for 30 years, the story has gotten juicier lately because some ...read more
