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In 'Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,' the curtain falls on tradition
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Uncategorized
- September 19, 2025
In another step forward for the transgender movement, a trans woman (a natal male) has breastfed a baby. The 30-year-old transwoman sought help from Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City. Her female partner was “not interested in breastfeeding” and she wanted to assist. Although she had not had gender-reassignment
READ MOREEvery week we get requests from readers to share something with the audience or to ask the audience a question. Depending on the material or the question, occasionally we’ll act on it. If we don’t, it doesn’t mean we won’t, we’re probably just behind in our writing. Shortly after we shared stories about Martin Luther
READ MOREMilon Townsend has worked in glass his entire adult life, turning out everything from jewelry to beautiful figurines over the last 50 years, devoting part of his time to sharing his knowledge with others. His work has appeared in museums and galleries, and he’s made hundreds of appearances selling his wares or teaching his craft
READ MOREA week ago, the MT Mercer Street, a Japanese-owned tanker managed by a U.K.-based company owned by Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer, sailing in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Oman, was struck by drones. A British security guard and Romanian crew member were killed. Britain and the U.S. immediately blamed Iran, and the Israelis
READ MOREIn my teaching days, George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World appeared frequently on my classroom reading lists. Orwell’s vision of a totalitarian Big Brother government competed in my mind with Huxley’s dystopian view of a “happy” dictatorship controlled by technology and drugs, and I finally concluded Brave New World
READ MORESolving the huge debt incurred by young adults who took out loans to attend college has become a key policy debate. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for example, recently announced proposed legislation to eliminate student loan debt by taxing bonds and stocks. By the beginning of 2019, student loan debt was at an all-time high: Over 44 million borrowers
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