While menstruation is not directly related to the act of sex, a person’s period can dramatically impact their sex life. First, a quick definition of what a period is: Menstruation, caused by hormones, is when your body sheds the lining of your uterus. Getting your period signifies the obvious, that you are not pregnant, and […]
My twin brother is a tough guy! He fishes and climbs and skis and he wears baseball caps. He texts with abbreviations and has a separate climbing Instagram account. He refers to his skiing as “sending.” He has never been interested in politics, the Ezra Klein show, or feminist theory, and was a frequent eye-roller […]
In the past two days, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about the opening paragraph to W.E.B. Du Bois’s “The Souls of Black Folk”: “The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.” The Civil War was not a metamorphosis of American race relations. Post-Reconstruction, civil rights advocates found themselves at the bottom of a […]
It feels more than a little weird to write an opinion article about a minor biopic that nobody saw two days after a major national election. Oddly, it feels even weirder to write about said biopic when the man it portrays rapes a woman, betrays his closest friend, discriminates against Black tenants, fights against having […]
We hope you are all recovering from your Halloweekend with grace and humility. We would love to tell you our three meticulously planned, sexy costumes, but we aren’t going to, because our editors won’t let us reveal our identities. It is definitely not because we picked super popular costumes that everyone else did and are […]
We have finally made it. After a debate fiasco, a candidate switch, brat summer, two failed assassination attempts, Peanut the squirrel, and dozens of other moments that will go down in political lore, the final day of the 2024 presidential election is upon us. I could use this article to discuss the serious risks that another four years […]
In 1961, John F. Kennedy made a bold statement at a Democratic Party dinner. “If all of you had voted the other way…I would not be President of the United States.” This dinner took place in Cook County, Chicago. This county’s results were contested by Republicans because the county swung the state of Illinois, and without Illinois […]
We were drooling over how big and sexy our brains are when we suddenly wondered how we got these gigantic noodles and what about them gets us going. We knew that the only person who could answer the question for us was Associate Professor of the Practice in Biology Joyce Powzyk. Powzyk teaches the most coveted NSM course […]
In 2016, Donald Trump won the White House on the backs of a forgotten group of Americans: the working class. In 2024, another group of forgotten Americans could help send Donald Trump back to the Oval Office: young men. The last three polls by The New York Times/Siena found Trump ahead of Kamala Harris by an […]
Everybody loves free speech…until it is speech they disagree with. But if you really care about free speech, then you will live by what the French philosopher Voltaire said: “I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Free speech is about […]