Got Student Loans? Find Out How Much You’ll Really Pay.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More and more Americans are drowning in debt. About 44.7 million Americans currently have student debt, and in 2017 they owed more than $1.3 trillion in student loans—more than two and a half times what they owed 10 years earlier. Meanwhile, it takes them an…
Representation on the Small Screen: What Does It Mean to Feel Seen?
A scene from On My Block.Netflix Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As a young woman of color growing up in Stockton, California, I never really felt seen on TV shows. If I’m honest, I wasn’t looking for representation either: I had grown to accept mainstream media as predominantly white. Friends…
You Told Us What It Means to Be an American—and It’s About More Than Trump
RomoloTavani/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s a fraught time to live in America. Its borders have become militarized war zones, while larger existential questions loom just under every news story: Who has a right to be an American? And why? This Fourth of July, we were reminded by abolitionist Frederick…
“Justice,” “Anthony Scarapoochie,” and More—Your Best Ideas for Naming Elizabeth Warren’s Puppy
Bigandt_Photography/iStock/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced she got a new puppy, we asked you to suggest some creative dog names for her. And wow, did you respond. We also heard from Donald Trump Jr., who tried to troll us on Twitter, but your suggestions were far…
For Pride, We Asked You to Name Your Favorite LGBTQ Characters Growing Up (Real or Imagined).
Mother Jones; Sullivan Entertainment; New Line Cinema Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At around eight years old, when Anna Swartz first saw the made-for-TV movie Au Pair, she got a “painful good feeling” in her chest. At the time, she didn’t know if the emotion was brought on by the movie…
How Are You Reacting to the Supreme Court’s Travel Ban Ruling?
People gather in front of the Supreme Court to protest its ruling on the travel ban. Ting Shen/Xinhua/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court upheld the Trump’s administration’s travel ban Tuesday morning, ruling in a 5-4 decision that the president has the authority to issue the order. About…