To be queer in Singapore
Just this year, Singapore’s top court upheld section 377A. That’s a British colonial-era law prohibiting consenting sex between men. And while the government says it doesn’t strictly enforce that law,...
17 Jun 202228min
The biggest Jan. 6 bombshells
After more than a year of investigations and thousands of hours of depositions, the Jan. 6 committee is looking to prove that former president Donald Trump had a plan to overturn the 2020 election.Tod...
16 Jun 202221min
The Future of Abortion, Part 4: Keeping It
Pregnancy centers offer services like free pregnancy tests, and sometimes resources like diapers or baby clothes — even classes and counseling. Their main focus, though, is to persuade women not to ha...
15 Jun 202226min
Why L.A. has fridge-less apartments
For most renters across the United States, having a refrigerator come with your unit is a given. Not in Southern California. For reasons no one can fully explain or understand, renters must furnish th...
14 Jun 202216min
Hidden clues of a Black family's Bible
In the late 1980s, the Diggs family of Southern California came across a family Bible with an incredible backstory. Notes written in the margin documented their family history to an enslaved ancestor ...
13 Jun 202218min
The drag mothers of Los Angeles
Drag culture is one of the most iconic forms of expression within the LGBTQ community. For outsiders looking in, drag culture looks fun and flamboyant. But for lots of queens, it’s about so much more ...
10 Jun 202230min
How mass shootings affect young voters
This year’s midterm elections were expected to be a referendum on the economy, but as gun violence is on the minds of Americans, yet again, millennials and zillennials, who’ve grown up in an era of ma...
9 Jun 202222min
What the Summit of the Americas means
The Summit of the Americas. It’s when the leaders of all the nations of the Western Hemisphere get together every three to four years and and talk shop. This year’s edition is in the United States, fo...
8 Jun 202221min
