Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check. November 28, 2008. Pop culture vampires have always reflected cultural anxieties about sex. "Twilight", the new teen box office blockbuster, is no exception.
Rosie White, American Sexuality Magazine. November 21, 2008. Female spies have been the subject of cultural fascination since Mata Hari, but the realities they face are quite different from fiction.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. July 11, 2008. Across America, local culture has been supplanted by fast food and sub-par Will Smith movies. No wonder people don't care about hometown issues.
Ruben Navarrette, Washington Post Writers Group. July 9, 2008. Debates over language reflect the anxiety that some people feel about America's changing cultural landscape.
Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. April 17, 2008. Research that traces bisexuality in fruit flies to a genetic variation challenges assumptions about sexual attraction.
Deanna Zandt, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. December 15, 2007. Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi was killed in his home Friday night. His family needs your help.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay, AlterNet: PEEK. August 21, 2007. Samhita Mukhopadhyay: Is smoking weed really a "guy thing"? And if not, why are media depictions of drug use usually sexist?
Andrew Lam, New America Media. July 10, 2007. American schools stress self-esteem as the stepping stone to academic achievement. But students from Asian cultures, which place little stock in self-esteem, seem to do better than their American counterparts in school.
Francis Deng, MIT Center for International Studies. March 29, 2007. Beyond the immediate needs in Darfur, the international community should help Sudan work through the conflicts of race, religion, and culture that have proliferated within the country's borders for a half century.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. January 30, 2007. Buyers in the U.S. usually give positive feedback or no feedback at all, inflating people's eBay "reputations."
Celina R. De Leon, AlterNet. October 11, 2006. The Christian right has done its best to keep America obsessed with clean, friendly family values. But what constitutes 'decency' -- and where does the Foley scandal fit in?
