Amanda Taub
Former Vox staff
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“Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life’s momentous acts of self-definition.”
“What separates us from ISIS? Because that’s what they do, they go around and tear down history in those nations that they’ve conquered.”
The Dominican Republic stripped citizenship from thousands of black Dominicans with Haitian ancestors. Now it may expel them to Haiti, a country many have never known.
“And sometimes you got to make noise to do that. Sometimes you may even have to die like Denmark Vesey to do that. Sometimes you have to march, struggle and be unpopular to do that.”
Those shirtless photos are actually sending an important political message.
The real issue behind the explosive debate over political correctness on campus.
The real lesson of Sandberg’s moving essay is about love as well as loss.
Perennial wannabe presidential candidate Donald Trump has been roundly mocked for claiming he has a “foolproof” secret plan to defeat ISIS. Here’s a satirical imagining of how he would respond to his critics.
Putin’s fury over the FIFA prosecution is about much more than the World Cup.
Watch Jon Stewart’s one-man show about the very slow FIFA investigation. There are wigs.