While it may be easy to take our entitlements for granted, many of the provisions for workers are a result of the struggles of the labor movement.
On May 1st, most countries in the world celebrate Labor Day. International Workers' Day, in recent years, has been reduced to job fairs and holiday breaks, but its relevance has not been lost on those cognizant of its significance. Understandably so, it ...
Those who are trying (including Tom Perrotta, Ayad Akhtar, and more) tell us what it's like.
In early August, after Andrew Lipstein published The Vegan, his sophomore novel, a handful of loved ones asked if he planned to quit his day job in product design at a large financial technology company. Despite having published two books with the ...
Some thoughts on Barbenheimer, the spectacle, and the "Barbie is an anti-man film!" crowd.
Let me preface this piece with a very special nod to Barbenheimer, the occurrence. It was exactly the canon affair we (most of us, at least) thought it was going to be. What was once a memefied internet phenomenon has become something ...
A growing chorus of concerned former “addicts” are trying to wake people up to caffeine's negative effects.
Petty Officer Second Class Marcus Bivens stood before a panel of U.S. Navy officers, hands cuffed behind his back, facing charges of an unauthorized absence.For his first fifteen years of service, Bivens had been considered a "squared-away sailor"-orderly, ...
If pageants are about empowering women, then transwomen, mothers, and pregnant women have as much a right to be Miss Universe as any.
Everybody thinks that inclusivity is great until, of course, we have to do the including. In the face of uncomfortable (at-times so very foreign) modern realities, we tend to cling to our old-world biases for comfort. Most people from a ...
How formidable these 7-11 Busog Meal boxes look on my kitchen counter. Layers upon layers of empty processed cardboard that used to house my favorite convenience store sisig and tuna omelettes form this great fort. I see about 15 boxes here ...
Was it always meant to be this obnoxious? Probably.
I forget how or when it started, you know? That exact moment in the timeline when LinkedIn became the sum of all the worst parts of Facebook. See, I joined LinkedIn a few years ago just because I felt like I had ...
Nothing was ever the same for Baler after Apocalypse Now.
When Apocalypse Now premiered at the Cannes Film Festival back in May 1979, its director Francis Ford Coppola raised one too many eyebrows when he told reporters: "We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to ...
Yes! We can actually not look at our phones all the damn time!
Help me! I can't stop scrolling! I can't stop consuming content! I'm a chronically online 21st-century person, and I must have my content! Nom, nom, nom. 15-second video. Nom, nom, nom. 10-second video. I need to ...
The indie studio's decisive wins in the six major categories is a first in Oscars history. A24's rise is just unparalleled in mainstream Hollywood history.
The weather is different in Hollywood now since A24 came to town. Once it started turning in one oddball critical and commercial hit after another, the indie studio darling just couldn't help itself. This year was no different. It bagged nine ...
Indiecore, emocore, goblincore. We get it with the cores!
Every person on the internet is trying to prove how different they are from the rest of the online population. She's a coquette girl who pairs dainty pearls with lace garments and only dates old(er) men, the a-la-Lana ...
We just hate seeing a strong woman take control of her life. Such a shame.
Philippine show business is as dangerous as it is fickle for actors and actresses who dare to be something else. You can have all the talent in the world but if you don't fit the "Filipino celebrity prototype" (the usual Eurocentric ...
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