My apologies in advance for the long backstory, but it is necessary to fully understand the horrible-ness of the situation. I live in a tiny apartment in New York with my wife and son, which, ever since our son has gotten the ability to walk and talk and whatnot already made sex a fairly covert affair (the window of…

This is an important story that should always be used as a warning. They should teach it in SexEd in non-crazy religious states because it’s a DIRE warning. Or heck, teach it in Alabama because it ruins every pretense of sexiness.

Hezbollah is Lebanese. Hamas is Palestinian. Hamas is largely funded by the Saudis and is Sunni. As far as Hezbollah goes, I agree, but let’s keep in mind in the prism of realpolitik that the US has funded plenty of shitty organizations to advance regional and global aims.

I think it’s interesting that it’s a culture that requires a man’s sign-off for his wife to leave the country and yet she still has the power to—and feels safe enough to—go to the papers and complain about him. Like . . . that’s a legitimately fascinating dynamic.

I would be all-in for this. Let’s just get a slew of badass female athletes from a variety of sports and have them go at it. Fanservice to an extreme!

UAE is roughly the same distance from the crisis as Hungary, so please explain why they have any greater a duty of care than the Hungarians do. Because they’re also brown? Is that it?

its so depressing. I’m in AustrAYA and we have just pledged to take 12,000 out of possible millions and people are complaining. its so damn embarassing. of course as soon as the topic of refugees the first argument people make is “why can’t we clean our own back yard first!!1!??” “what about the homeless GUYZ” YET…

You and I take very different things from that graph:
I see Gulf states, including some that are quite poor and quite small, taking in 4 million refugees- an enormous number. All the while large European countries with quite a bit of wealth like the UK and France are patting themselves on the back for taking 80,000…

does anyone WANT to flee to Saudi Arabia or Qatar?

Anna, is there a reason you’ve chosen to use ‘migrants’ in the headline, rather than ‘refugees’?

I had a couple friends in high school that developed drug addictions. My best friend was addicted to meth for two years. From my understanding, the fact that you don’t get horribly addicted the first time you do it is what gets you. Addiction develops over a matter of months. People do it the first time and think it’s…

Also, people should really educate themselves about the horrifically unethical practices that inevitably occur whenever there are moves to “save the children” through placing them with international adoptive families during a massive crisis/disaster situation. And I can just imagine the further abuses and…

Um. Please. No. The last thing we need is a rush of wannabe adoptive parents in the West swooping in to gobble up refugee kids. Children belong with their parents, and if that is not possible then with their extended family, and if that’s also not possible, then they need to be placed within caring homes of people…

“Refugees are our future spouses, best friends, our next soul mate, the drummer in our children’s band.”

So a week after I started this job, a guy who no longer worked at the publication I worked for died in a car accident. I never met him, and he was a copy editor so it wasn’t like I was familiar in any way with him through what he wrote.
But nevertheless, the EOC said everyone needed to go. So I went. And somehow the…

I would rather get another abortion than watch that video, tbh

Who’s the fringe candidate on the Dem side? Is he/she advocating for the sustained medical torture of child rape victims? If no, you have a hell of a false equivalency there.

Those who are running as representatives of the Republican party have the same views. They are in the positions they are in because most Republican voters agree with them.

The whole both-sides-are-equally-bad thing is a false equivalency, but I want to stick to the situation at hand vis-a-vis Huckabee.