By Sara Lipton

President Trump’s recently completed overseas tour has left pundits struggling to explain his surprising affinity for the pre-modern Saudi Arabian monarchy. This hardly seems the attitude of a populist, a Christian conservative, or an ethnic nationalist, to mention just three of the labels that have been applied to him. Rather, the president’s preferences suggest that we should look further back than the 20th century to understand his political style and impulses. Continue reading →

By Shenila Khoja-Moolji

From the notorious Pepsi commercial and H&M’s video promoting their recycling project, to the cover of Vogue Arabia and CR Fashion Book, women donning the hijab are acquiring greater media visibility than ever before. Continue reading →

By Lisa DiCarlo

I adopted two Moroccan boys, now two and five years old. In the month-long gap between Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day, I think about my two sons’ biological parents and how we share a bond that will forever remain. And one that they will never know. Continue reading →

By Jan Edwards Hemming

It is my first Pride, and I’m nervous. I pull my hair back and wear a paisley-patterned sundress, the closest thing to rainbow that I own. I hope it will hide sweat; it is late June, and I’ve learned that summer in New York City feels just as much like hell as it does in my Louisiana hometown. I still don’t understand parades where beads aren’t thrown, but in the midday sun I clap and cheer and tear up watching all these people who feel comfortable in their skin. I am jealous of them. Continue reading →

By Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Pornography is a modern, technological form of sexual voyeurism. The phenomenon of voyeurism itself dates back to Vatsayana collecting material for Kamasutra. Today, just as back then, the impulse and taste for pornography is utilitarian rather than erotic. Continue reading →