Jess Lahitou

Because it looms a mere three days away, the subject of President-elect’s inauguration is a media fascination. Will there be protests?

The 2016 election has, for a while now, felt eerily akin to 1984 (lots ‘o doublespeak coming out of Trump and his supporters). Or The Hunger Games, to take a more recent example of dystopian genre fiction. Wherein, government becomes solely about politics and the media spectacle, rather than actual policies and ideas.

Digital assistants such as Siri are not people. Yet, the way these female-voiced bots are programmed to react when being sexualized or sexually harassed paints a pretty bleak picture of how Silicon Valley organizes its values.

This last Friday happened to be the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

It's finally Friday, which means it's time to have a little fun.

When Americans pick a president, they are looking for someone who is right for the moment. A person who speaks for the time, who is equipped to react and respond accordingly.

That’s what Syria is — our morally bankrupt foreign policy, impossible to escape, impossible to fix.

Every legal system in the world recognizes gradations of bad behavior.

One question here: why is a major government agency unable to fix its Twitter account for over a year? Two questions: Who is Marc Rich?

You may find yourself wondering today, “Who is Steve Bannon?” Which as a fellow American, and just a human generally-speaking, I really wish were n