I know that many people have already felt the sharp, inexplicable pain of losing a mother — a pain that I haven’t felt and can’t fully relate to. I know that this is something most human beings will experience in their lifetimes — inevitable and terrible and incomparable. And I…

Anderson Cooper talks empathy, privilege, queerness, and desensitization ahead of an uncensored night in Ft. Lauderdale with Andy Cohen, where audiences can get to know the unfiltered, uninhibited versions of them. Anderson Cooper is no stranger to South Florida. As one of the most well-known television news reporters in the…

July 4th is upon us, and given the daily atrocities in our nation, a patriotic dilemma is imminent. There are concentration camps at the border. There are women drinking out of toilets. There are babies crying out for their parents and parents crying out for their children. There are people…

I often tell the same story when I’m looking to relate to people. It’s about my first year in America, when I was in kindergarten and just five years old. I had moved from Trinidad, where everyone celebrated everything in my eyes. Hindus, Muslims, and Christians celebrated each other’s holidays…