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Cable News in the Age of Millennials
This past week, MSBNC announced it would be canceling both the Reid Report and Ronan Farrow Daily, two of its daytime shows that had been...
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Mar 8, 20156 min read


The Crusades Haven’t Ended: Crusades in Politics
It isn’t unusual for the president’s words to be analyzed and criticized. The propensity of Americans to routinely invoke their First...
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Mar 2, 20155 min read


What the UNC Chapel Hill Shootings Tell Us About Hate Crimes in the United States
On February 10, 2015, three college students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, were shot dead. Deah Barakat was a 23-year-old student at...
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Mar 1, 20155 min read


Florida’s Bathroom Problem
Need to use a public restroom? If you live in Florida, that might soon be a criminal act, depending on who you are. On February 4th,...
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Feb 27, 20156 min read


The Political Relevancy of Political Correctness
Jonathan Chait’s recent article in New York Magazine asserts that “political correctness” is the downfall of political discourse....
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Feb 26, 20154 min read


Issues of Privilege in A Marginalized Community
Last February, Cornell University’s LGBTQ student group Direct Action to Stop Heterosexism (DASH) sent a letter to LGBTQ groups at Ivy...
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Feb 25, 20156 min read


Fresh Off the Boat: Flipping Foreignness in the United States On Its Head
As U.S. politicians and activists push towards a new era of immigration reform, they must consider America’s fastest growing population,...
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Feb 24, 20156 min read


The Politicization of War Films
Movies about the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are scarce when compared to the volume of World War I and II and Vietnam-era films. The ones...
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Feb 23, 20154 min read


How The Vatican Took A Page From the GOP Playbook
This week, Slovaks voted on a referendum that would have banned same-sex marriage in the country as well as adoption by same-sex couples....
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Feb 21, 20156 min read


Safe Sex, Endangered Speech
San Fernando Valley, a part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, is home to upwards of one million residents and was, at one point,...
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Feb 20, 20155 min read


The Sound of Understanding: Music and International Relations
Political conflict and international relations aren’t usually the first things that come to mind when listening to classical music. As a...
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Feb 19, 20155 min read


A More Perfect Censor: Self-Censorship in Film
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the Supreme Court, the same Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of such cases as Roe V. Wade, United States...
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Feb 18, 20154 min read


Guys, Geeks and Gals: What the Media Missed About the Misogyny of Nerd Culture
The day before Anita Sarkeesian, the founder of Feminist Frequency, was scheduled to talk at Utah State University, administration...
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Feb 16, 20157 min read


What it Means to be Jewish in American Politics
A Pew Research graphic illustrating the religious makeup of the 114th Congress, via the Pew Research Center. Do American politicians see...
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Feb 15, 20154 min read


False Eyelashes and the Glass Ceiling in Croatia
On January 11, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic was elected Croatia’s first female president in a close 50.4 percent to 49.6 percent vote against...
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Jan 24, 20154 min read


Art as Power in North Korea
ABC’s Bob Woodruff is one of the few American journalists who has been allowed inside North Korean borders. He has been to the country a...
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Jan 17, 20154 min read


Uncle Sam: Patron of the Arts
In the 2014 fiscal year, the United States allotted one-hundredth of one percent of its discretionary spending to the arts, at a little...
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Dec 21, 20144 min read
As Residencias Proliferate, Latin American Cultural Identity is Transformed
SOMA, a bastion of contemporary, didactic art and subversive film, is an independent art gallery, coined ‘residencia,’ in the...
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Dec 21, 20145 min read


Protest and Paint: What the Ayotzinapa Resistance Art Looks Like Right Now
On September 26th, 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal teacher-training school, a rural teachers’ college in the Mexican state...
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Dec 19, 20144 min read


Raters of the Lost Art
Thoroughly mixed into the cultural Kool-Aid of the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system —...
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Dec 3, 20147 min read
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