Articles

  • “Queer Eye” thinks inside the box

    When Queer Eye for the Straight Guy premiered on Bravo in 2003, the concept was simple: Five gay men would cast their presumably discerning queer eyes on a sloppy heterosexual male. As daring as it was then considered to put five gay men on TV, the formula was blandly and…

  • Time to disband the Senate?

    The bill that President Biden’s administration is touting as a great compromise is nothing more than a win for the same old power brokers, dropping popular social services at the behest of rich corporations and political donors. The Biden administration has been promoting its top legislative priorities – an extremely…

  • The left builds power in Congress

    In textbooks, speeches and the popular imagination, the U.S. is a democracy accountable to the people. Yet recent coverage of the negotiations surrounding the Biden administration’s Build Back Better Act has focused on just two people: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), a one-time social worker turned…