In the contemporary moment of sex-positive feminism, praises for the orgasmic capacity of the vibrator abound. “They’re all-encompassing, a blanket of electricity, that’ll course through your veins, producing orgasms you didn’t know you were physically capable of having,” wrote Erica Moen in her web comic “Oh Joy Sex Toy.” Vibrators today go hand in hand with … Read more
The Senate’s confirmation vote of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to become the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court was the most partisan in modern history. The 50-48 tally continues a trend in which confirmations have devolved into strict party-line votes. While political pundits spent months pondering over whether centrist or independent-minded Republicans–Maine’s Susan Collins, Arizona’s … Read more
Time is fluid and malleable in Elliott Hundley’s three dimensional, mixed-media painting “the high house low!” (2011), an explosion of color and texture that sucks the viewer into a visual drama sparking with fire and rage. The four-panel assemblage work measuring more than 16 feet wide — a vortex of collaged and pinned cutouts from … Read more
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s most marketable skill is marketing. Before his job with the Trump administration, he was the communications director for the Republican Party, a position that made him responsible for how the party presented itself to the world. From Jan. 20 until this summer, that was sort of his position for … Read more
Former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon was interviewed on “60 Minutes.” Here’s what he said Republican leadership and the Russia investigation. (Amber Ferguson/The Washington Post) Former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon believes the firing of FBI director James B. Comey by President Trump was the biggest mistake “maybe in modern political history.” Bannon … Read more
Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images Even within the modern portion of NBA history—1973-74 through the present day (when the scope of box scores expanded), point guards have seen their roles change dramatically. They’re no longer just the table-setters who once graced the league’s premier rosters, though players who fill such roles are now known as pure point guards. … Read more
Days before a potentially historic union vote at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, the car company has been accused of running one of the “nastiest anti-union campaigns in the modern history of the American labour movement”. The vote, a fiercely contested effort by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union to represent a foreign automaker’s US … Read more