Noah Berlatsky

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.