How to help teens can avoid diet culture this holiday season

Editor’s Note: Katie Hurley, author of “No More Mean Girls: The Secret to Raising Strong, Confident and Compassionate Girls,” is a child and adolescent psychotherapist in Los Angeles. She specializes in work with tweens, teens and young adults. CNN  —  Continue reading How to help teens can avoid diet culture this holiday season

Autoworkers’ Historic Victory Is a Turning Point in the Climate Culture War

In addition to this sort of gaslighting (pardon the pun), Trump also exploits xenophobic fears about E.V.s. Last year, at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the former president delivered an incoherent rant about a friend of his who, he said, Continue reading Autoworkers’ Historic Victory Is a Turning Point in the Climate Culture War

Christopher Rufo’s Shockingly Open Appeal: I’ll Fund Right-Wing “Culture War” Projects

A conservative activist has unveiled a fellowship that aims to help “conservative journalists, activists, and opinion leaders” foment a culture war. Christopher Rufo, an ally of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, has become a leading figure in conservative education policy. He Continue reading Christopher Rufo’s Shockingly Open Appeal: I’ll Fund Right-Wing “Culture War” Projects

Cancel Culture? Jewish Editor Fired for Sharing Onion Article on Gaza

Ogg has also used her position to attack political opponents with onerous court cases, effectively punishing them for challenging her. In mid-September, a county court-at-law judge told the Houston Chronicle that he warned colleagues not to cross her: “If you Continue reading Cancel Culture? Jewish Editor Fired for Sharing Onion Article on Gaza

Hello, Left. Now Do You Believe There’s Cancel Culture?

“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” Thus spake 34 signatories of the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine on the night of Hamas’s October 7 massacre of 1,400 Continue reading Hello, Left. Now Do You Believe There’s Cancel Culture?

To Save Your Favorite Restaurant, Destroy Tipping Culture

There is no denying that raising wages will hurt businesses with already narrow profit margins. Many owners claim that they cannot operate while paying a fair wage. They’re telling the truth—pre–Civil War plantation owners had the exact same complaint about Continue reading To Save Your Favorite Restaurant, Destroy Tipping Culture

Britain’s Hot New Import From America: The Climate Culture Wars

With Conservatives facing a likely defeat in a general election expected sometime next year, the win—their only victory that day—offered a bit of juice to a party mired by scandal, internal turmoil, and a cost of living crisis. Never mind Continue reading Britain’s Hot New Import From America: The Climate Culture Wars