OPINION: Why We Shouldn’t Have Published Mr. Met’s Op-Ed “Let Me Hit Children With a Baseball Bat”
By Drew Thomas-Nathan LOS ANGELES, CA — Baseball mascot Mr. Met’s essay about wanting to murder children in cold blood
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Strong Feelings
New Netflix Show With Positive, Nuanced Queer Representation Unfortunately Still Sucks
By Finn Kobler After the problematic lesbian fetishism of “Orange is the New Black” and the bisexual erasure of “The Read more
OPINION: Why’d We Have to Learn Sex Ed If We’d Never Have to Use That Stuff in the Real World?
by Keith Herrmann Cursive. Civil War generals. Sexual intercourse. What do these things have in common? The government made sure Read more
OPINION: If Trump’s Guilty of Abusing Power for Political Gain, Then I’m Guilty of Vehicular Manslaughter
These days in America, it seems like everyone’s got to be a “criminal.” The media just loves throwing that label Read more
Opinion: Fun Fact Could Have Been Funner
by Melanie Hoffmann BIRNKRANT SECOND FLOOR — The beginning-of-the-year floor meeting was thrown into an unbearable awkward silence when resident Read more
Guess What? Dad’s Gonna Live, So Quit Calling Dibs on the Antiques!
by Leila Hoffpauir Well, Dad got the call. His liver is officially cancer-free, so put down the vase, Karen. You’re Read more
Op-Ed: Is Hecuba Likable Enough?
by Drew Thomas-Nathan LOS ANGELES, CA -- A year and a half ago, USC opened the new Village by unveiling Read more
Well, Mom’s Drunk Again, Which Means We Can Wear Her Scarves
by Leila Hoffpauir So right in the middle of a thrilling “Dexter’s Laboratory” marathon, my brother Justin and I have Read more
Stop Complaining, People! Marvel’s Probably Going to Retcon Stan Lee’s Death in a Couple of Months
by Alex Greenblatt We saw this with Spider Man in 2011, we saw it with Karen Page in 1999, and Read more
Cool! This Bathroom Has a Fold Down Table so I Can Eat My Lunch Without Being Bullied!
by Elise Vondra ANNENBERG BATHROOM STALL -- Man, today is the best day ever. While I was trying to dissociate Read more