A Brief History Of Ukraine (And Why Russia Wants To Control It) In this animated video, historian Matt Lewis tells the story of Ukraine's turbulent and often surprising history. Beginning over a thousand years ago with the formation of the Kyivan Rus state, Matt tracks the development of Ukraine dur...

US President Joseph Biden denounces Russian invasion, casting it as part of a decades-long attempt to crush democracies. In a speech from a castle that served for centuries as a home for Polish monarchs, Mr. Biden described the face-off with Mr. Putin as a moment he has long warned about: a clash ...

Back in 2019, reports surfaced that anti-LGBTQ activist (and then Liberty University president) Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife, Becki, were engaged in a seven-year illicit affair with their twentysomething pool boy, Giancarlo Granda. Now, Granda is telling his side of the story in an explosive, juic...

The Respect for Marriage Act is a landmark United States federal law passed by the 117th United States Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, require the U.S. federal government to recognize the validity of same-sex and interracial marriages in the United States, and to protect religious li...

The New York Police forcibly cleared Zuccotti park for cleaning. "Liberty Square [Zuccotti Park], home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months and birthplace of the 99% movement that has spread across the country and around the world, is presently being evicted by a large police force," the de...

This video is a photography essay remembering Mexico during the 20th Century. From JF Kennedy's visit to the capital; Mexico City to the fall of the Angel of Liberty statue after the 1957 earthquake. From the construction of the Azteca soccer stadium and the Palace of Sports for the 1968 Olympic Gam...

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), who's gay, delivers a passionate speech on the House floor in opposition to the anti-LGBT provision in the FY-17 NDAA. Rep. Maloney spoke on the floor against the Russell Amendment on May 18, 2016. “The anti-LGBT provision in NDAA is not about supporting our tr

The Respect for Marriage Act official repeals the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which restricted marriage to exclusively being between a man and woman. It was trumped by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, which established same-sex marriage as a 14th Amendment right.

The argument is overwhelming that there is a federal constitutional right to marry a person that you love. And 36 states have held that. Seventy percent of the American people now live in a state that has constitutional or statutory marriage equality. And the history of the Supreme Court is a histor

Audrey Munson was the First American Supermodel and as such, become beloved and famous. Her "most perfect form" still reigns over New York City and across the United States. You probably already know her, without even knowing you know her. You may have passed her on the street many times, unbeknowns...