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…
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…
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…