Bitcoin reaches a new all-time high near $112000, driven by institutional investment and favorable policies, signaling its ...

Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) are big news in 2014. If Scarlett Johansson's Sodastream fiasco didn't grab your attention, perhaps the American Studies Association's boycott of Israeli ...

Courtney Demone is a trans woman currently undergoing hormone replacement therapy and, as such, is starting to grow breasts. This experience, she wrote in a Mashable essay published Wednesday, has ...

This trend is fascinating, in part because there's long been a taboo associated with people (particularly, women) choosing to opt out of parenthood. Women who choose not to have kids have been ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate groups, called the KKK "the most infamous — and oldest — of American hate groups." The KKK's website states that the organization's ...

On the 40th anniversary, 63% of Americans stated that they do not want to see Roe v. Wade overturned. With the overwhelming majority holding firmly in support of abortion rights for the second ...

While more coverage of people like Caitlyn Jenner and more trans TV characters may make trans narratives more visible, there's a lot of nuance about being trans we don't see. But one hashtag ...

When I'm sad, I listen to sad music. When I'm happy, I listen to happy music. When I'm depressed, I don't listen to any music at all. This is such a reliable pattern in my life that I can use my ...

Illegal, criminal, threatening, family-oriented, hard-working, patriotic — these are the contradictory words used to describe Latinos. They demonstrate an inconsistency we Latinos know all too ...

Ever since Joy was a little girl, someone or something has stalked her bedroom late at night. At first, this specter inexplicably terrified her. But when she became an adult, the ghost continued ...

In 2001, the Portuguese government did something that the United States would find entirely alien. After many years of waging a fierce war on drugs, it decided to flip its strategy entirely: It ...

There's one thing almost every Ivy League university and elite college in America has in common in 2017: a thriving teen-themed Facebook meme group. These groups, some of which have more members ...