Mifepristone, a medication used to induce abortion, has been at the forefront of reproductive rights debates for decades. The drug, also known as RU-486, is essential for ensuring access to safe, effective...
There are over 600,000 people released from prisons and roughly 7 million people released from jail in the United States each year alone; a considerably high number of those same people circulate back...
Almost every student across the US has gone through the stress of taking a standardized test, but are they truly beneficial? Schools should be a place for creativity and learning, not stress.
High-stake...
Fluff pieces have become more prevalent; important events are receiving less coverage due in part to desensitization to tragedy and the necessity requirement to hold readers’ attention.
In some cases,...
Adam Sandler, a man who once brought utter happiness into the lives of anyone with a good sense of humor. His movies, being incredibly stupid, seem to have taught me more life lessons than any bump in...
Today in America, there are frightening low levels of literacy affecting the population’s ability to participate in and contribute to the world around them.
Literacy can be a great equalizer, leveling...
Since its inception, America has been built on the back of oppression, with our economy and infrastructure gained from generations of exploiting African Americans and other minorities for forced and underpaid...
To many, college may seem like the obvious and inexplicably clear choice following our foundational years of education. College holds an abundance of both academic and extracurricular opportunities that...
After 8 hours of school, two hours of sports practice, and what seems like a million hours of driving to get home, you're exhausted. It's been a long day. On the way home, you were planning on maybe watching...
“Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" has taken over the charts - with 701.37 million hours watched in its initial release. It is Netflix's second most popular English-language series. These...
Shootings have become a norm in this country. The average American wakes up to the same news every day: a new shooting. Each year since the first mass school shooting at Columbine High School in 1999,...
The obvious effects of climate change–heat waves, storms, and coral bleaching–overshadow an equally important, but less prominent impact: mental health.
While correlations have been drawn between...
