The editors of TFW note with great sadness the passing of Manning Marable, director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia...
TFW welcomes Adam Thomas to our Editorial Collective. Adam Thomas is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at University of California, Irvine, with a...
We regret the passing of Geraldine Ferraro, who died on Saturday, 24 March, at the age of 75. In 1984, Congresswoman Ferraro made history when,...
All things being equal (which they rarely are), U.S. military intervention in Libya should pay off to the decided advantage of this North African nation’s...
The Feminist Wire is proud to welcome Dr. Tamura Lomax aboard! Congratulations to Tamura for a brilliantly successful dissertation defense at Vanderbilt University on Monday,...
We are delighted that our colleague and Editorial Collective member—Nahum Chandler—and his family—his wife Ayumi and their son Aaron—are doing fine. Residents of Kyoto, Japan,...
It is even past my bed time at 3 o’clock, Thursday morning, 10 March 2011. But if we’re reading this right, we all have miles...
In the world of newspapers, “beneath the fold” apparently means that the feature bears only secondary interest or importance compared to what is situated above...
More GRITtv “The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which...
According to operatic lore, the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the opening of the Cairo Opera were supposed to have occurred conjointly with the...
I’ve awakened early the last few days because school started in earnest this week. Funny thing how the oldest habits linger (this particular one has...
A self-described “Blue-Dog” Democrat, Arizona’s “Gabby” Giffords likely did not know her assailant, nor, ironically, that in 2007, she had written him, as one of...
On Friday, 10 December, one of the most remarkable instances of civic responsibility was televised on C-Span. Bernie Sanders, Junior Senator from the state of...