It was Thanksgiving 2015. We were home for a much-appreciated break from trying to break into Hollywood; so far we…

Mass shootings in the United States have become frighteningly commonplace. Even more frightening is the fact that…

Danica Roem made history Tuesday night when she was elected to become Virginia’s first openly transgender state…

Since Election Day one year ago, culminating in President Donald Trump, white supremacists have held at least a…

Most gun owners in the United States cite “personal safety” as their number one reason for keeping a firearm. But…

Newtown. Aurora. Chattanooga. San Bernardino. Orlando. Las Vegas. And now Sutherland Springs.
Last week, Lamel Diggs, a 32-year-old inmate in a Mississippi prison, sent Splinter an email through CorrLinks, the…

The concept of “illegal immigration” may seem like it’s been around forever, but it’s actually relatively recent. To…
When I was growing up in the Chicagoland area, my father would tell me stories when we went shopping, scanning the…

Daryle L. Jenkins, founder of the One People’s Project, has spent decades working with antifa groups to fight back…

Peru has the second-highest rate of violence against women in all of South America. To highlight their country’s…

Muslim communities around the country are grieving over the terror attack that left eight people dead in lower…
Climate change affects everyone, but in the immediate aftermath of “natural” disasters, the poorest among us suffer…

More than 50 years ago, Los Angeles built Dodger Stadium as a permanent home for the Los Angeles Dodgers. But the…
Soul Searching is our series about how the most secular generation in history is changing the face of religion.

Why does a new commercial for IKEA China resort to offensive, tone-deaf stereotypes about women and dating? The ad,…
This week, Rolling Stone published yet another account of R. Kelly’s alleged predatory behavior, providing the…
On October 27 of last year, Jackie Fielder, 23, was living in the Bay Area, working her first job out of college and…
On August 11, hundreds of white nationalists marched the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia bearing tiki torches…

When notorious racist Richard Spencer showed up at the University of Florida this week, hundreds of protesters…