Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

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

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

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

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

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.