Noah Berlatsky

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

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

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

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.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

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

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

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

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.