Growing up it seemed so natural to me that America had 50 states—it was an even, balanced number. But as I started learning history in…
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Sight. Sight. Sound. Smell. Taste. Touch. Since the 1940s, major marketing corporations have studied ways to appeal to our five senses to convince us to buy. Today, manipulating…
Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo, Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas: what do all these men, Democrats and Republicans alike, have in common?…
The holy grail of conflict management has always been between Israel and Palestine; it is the most shining accomplishment for any individual or state mediator.…
White America is slowly but surely coming to the realization that when government-created and funded systems fail minorities, the intended systems have not broken; rather,…
Alice De Gentile first heard her mother’s voice when she was seven; due to a congenital cochlear malformation, she was born deaf in both ears.…
The relentless news cycle fixated on election and presidential transition turmoil made it relatively easy to forget that on October 26th, 2020, the Senate voted…
The coronavirus pandemic may have started in the East, but China, a country with a population four times the size of the United States, kept…
On the fateful day of the 18th of May 2009, between 40,000 Tamils lost their lives in a Civil War that had embroiled the nation…
As the end of Covid-19 slowly dawns, and with it the advent of a vaccine, a troubling trend is on the rise. Faced with worldwide…
For those following European Politics, news of democratic backsliding is not new. Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party has ruled Hungary with an absolute majority in parliament…
Notoriously overcrowded and underfunded, New Mexican animal shelters struggle every day to keep up with the number of strays and surrendered pets that come through…
Since the 1790s, with the establishment of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican political parties, the United States’ roots in the country’s two-party system have deepened. Nevertheless,…
Anti-Asian racism is surging, and it’s no secret as to why. Thanks to the bigoted lie that our community was responsible for bringing Covid-19 into…
Our hunger to belong is the longing to find a bridge across the distance from isolation to intimacy. – John O’Donohue, Irish poet When the…
Are we truly in an era of green marketing and greenwashing today as our climate crisis continues to deteriorate? Does Fiji water truly justify their…
“I budget and budget, and I still can’t really buy no food,” explained Carolyn Allen, a 58-year-old minimum wage worker at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.…
On October 24, 1945, fifty nation representatives at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco collaborated to create the United Nations.…