Noah Berlatsky

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.