Noah Berlatsky

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.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

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.

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

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

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.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

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