Interviewer: Ed Rampell

An interview with director Juliana Piccillo Hollywood’s love affair with sex workers began with silent movies. In fact, in 1929, the Academy of Motion Pictures’ very first Best Actress Oscar went to Janet Gaynor, who played a prostitute in two movies, 7th Heaven and Street Angel, while one of her competitors for that award, Gloria...

“PROUD BOYS, STAND BACK AND STAND BY…” — DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, 9/29/20 Who and what are the Proud Boys, with their provocative slogan “Fuck around and find out”? Are they a patriotic fraternal organization defending Western civilization? A men’s drinking club moonlighting as a vigilante defense force? An ultraconservative version of Fight Club? Or...

Whether he’s jousting before the Supreme Court, leading 300 staff attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union, teaching at universities or penning award-winning books, David Cole is a legal gladiator found at the front lines of battles to preserve and advance our Constitutional rights. It didn’t long after his graduation from Yale Law School in...