Great article. I have done, and am still doing, pro bono work for immigrants who are victims of domestic abuse. In my experience, the prosecutors are usually good at telling the women about u-visa and the VAWA self petition. However, I believe under both of these options, the woman has to actually agree to prosecute…

He didn’t strike out- it was ball four. Ruiz threw to first probably to make sure that if it was a dropped third strike he wasn’t just going to let Phillips get to first.

He didn’t strike out. He walked, and Ruiz threw to first under the mistaken impression that Phillips checked swing was called a strike. Watch the video. The home plate umpire appeals to first, and first ump signals safe, meaning no swing and a walk.

CBS could make bank by offering a for charge option to mute Jim Nantz.

Your Xbox One has been disabled due to suspected violation of the terms of our non-disclosure agreement. We have also broken your microwave, somehow. You and your whole family will now enter the Party Compliance Submission Position, and our armed Compliance Administrators will be along shortly.

“All-digital is the future! Anyone who has concerns over an always-online system and DRM policies that curb consumer rights is obviously an ignorant Luddite.”

The line for crow stew forms over there.

Like, I get it. But I've always found fault with this idea of liberal discourse - this "IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU" thing. Well, yeah, but by that logic, NOTHING is really about me, is it? You could also argue my experience of the world is limited to my own ability to perceive it, right? So in that sense, EVERYTHING is about…

As a counterpart to (or maybe in coordination with) the NY Times reporting on this, I highly recommend that folks check out UMass sociologist Miliann Kang's award-winning work on race, gender, and inequality in nail salons. I think part of what she'd argue is that this problem is about customers—not whether or not…

Um, St. Patrick’s day is a big deal in Ireland. He’s the patron saint of the country, and in Catholic cultures the feast days of patron saints are generally a big deal.

I’m a white cismale and I’ll never give up my privilege. It rules and I’ve yet to hear a good reason for me not to cash in my winning lottery ticket. Thank you for your time.

I’m disappointed that BU responded at all. What’s the point of an East Coast ivory tower if you can’t ignore the illiterate horde at the gates?

It’s definitely true that social media is not the best forum for discussing such complex issues, but that does not change the fact that some of the statements she made were provably untrue.

The brain’s single most important goal is efficiency. It accomplishes this by hardwiring a lot of things into rote routines in our heads, and we are pretty oblivious to it. Have you ever gotten to work and not remember the drive? It’s because our brains can essentially build an autopilot routine that complex. Most of…

I very nearly did once. It was in the early days of being a parent, and I would drop the kid off at daycare on the way to work. One day, he wasn’t making any noise — probably asleep — and I went to my office on autopilot. Luckily I noticed as I was turning into the parking garage. Scared the shit out of me, but now I…

"Leaving the kid alone in a car is against the law for a reason."

Whoa, wait, are we now judging all parenting decisions on the basis of how safe they would be if the parent stroked out? I guess that puts out bathing children without a chaperone, carrying them on your person, swimming, or driving them in a car.

Of what though? My single mother left me in the car many times around that age especially on long trips. Often it was my choice and often she was gone for less than 5 minutes. Yes, bad things can happen when someone makes that choice. But can doesn't mean "probably", "likely", or "on average."

If we're going to go there with leaving kids in cars, then I think it is vastly more important to write a story about "don't do it, don't do it, don't do it" with even owning a gun if you are the parent of a child. An average of 37 children per year die left in cars. Over 3,000 children per year die because of a…

I much prefer this response to this news story: Stop helicopter-parenting other people's kids.