Only around half of Americans trust the water coming out of their faucets, according to a  poll by the Associated Press. In light of...

Beauty standards, as promoters of mass consumerism and objectification, universally tend to be harmful. Add problematic racial dynamics,...

The most vocal debate about college athletes and employment revolves around whether they should be paid, but there are equally important...

In December of 2016, Amazon announced a new, physical retail store in Seattle, WA to enthusiastic but limited fanfare. The store – a...

“Viva Arte Viva is a Biennale designed with the artists, by the artists, and for the artists,” proclaims Christine Macel, curator of the...

The election of Donald Trump forced a reckoning among American Evangelical Christians. Faced with a candidate who seemed to at least...

On April 18, the city of Pittsburgh gathered to remember the life of one of its great sons, Dan Rooney. Although Oakland’s St. Paul...

The Texas Rangers are a baseball franchise whose identity is inseparable from politics. The Rangers were a tool for an American...

Military potency is synonymous for a nation’s power within the global sphere, in most modern societies today. The United States has...

Soylent Original (2.0) is packaged in a minimalist, matte white plastic bottle – no nutrition facts, no warning labels, zero clutter....

Exactly a century ago, in 1917, myriad forces in Russia conspired to topple the Czar, overthrowing an autocratic system of government...

Military weaponry is evolving, and we are getting closer to creating weapons systems able to make killing decisions without human...

Author’s Note: I recognize that I, as a cisgender person, have immense privilege and limited perspective and personal experience...

Some argue that the historical and current bloodshed of Western imperialism has transformed the English language into a universal tool of...

“I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life.”...

March 13 marked the fourth anniversary of the white smoke – the fumata bianca – leaking out of the top-most chimney in the Sistine...

The many parallels between cultural expression and political processes suggest that, whenever there is a hostile political climate, the...

A journalist investigates a government official and loses his job. He returns to find police have raided his home. Later, they beat him....

In the fall of 2014, hundreds of high school students in Jefferson County, Colorado, walked out of class to protest their newly elected...

“The rules that govern the distribution of genders in our language go back to late Latin and constitute internal constraints with which...