Wednesday, December 3, 2014. A seemingly normal day in the lives of many at a middle school in Folsom, California became a day that shall live in infamy for the community and the country. Seventh...
Almost immediately following the revelations that NBC News anchor Brian Williams had misrepresented numerous events while reporting the news, industry critics and members of the public alike jumped...
Ever since revolution swept the island in 1959, Cuba’s relationship with the United States was marked by suspicion and outright hostility. The communist government of Fidel Castro openly denounced...
In second grade, you may remember taking the relatively simple TerraNova standardized test, geared towards what students learned up to that point in elementary school. Then for the next six years of...
The terrorist attack on the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo on January 7 shocked the people of France and the entire world. Twelve people, mostly journalists, were murdered by three terrorists...
As The New Republic celebrates its one hundredth year of publication, a great amount of change has swept through the offices of the magazine. Depending on who you speak with, the changes thrust upon...
The Ferguson case – an incident in which a black 18 year-old, Michael Brown, was murdered by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, who shot him six times and evaded indictment – has long been the...
Eric Garner, a father to six children, was killed on July 17th, 2014. His killer, Staten Island Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, put the asthmatic Garner into a chokehold which was strictly prohibited...
For those who do not know me well, I am probably one of the biggest Bob Dylan fans under the age of 40 that you will come into contact with. As a young boy, I would take out numerous Dylan CD’s from...
“Do you wake up in the morning and need help to lift your head?
Do you read obituaries and feel jealous of the dead?
It’s like living on a cliffside, not knowing when you’ll dive.
Do you know,...
You’re seven years old on the playground when you’re told the boy from your class kicked dirt in your face because he has a crush on you. You can taste the grime and your knees are blooded and...
Recently, a mother of two was arrested for a most heinous crime: not cutting her grass. In Lenoir City, Tennessee, Karen Holloway was detained for this vile infraction. Holloway has a full time job,...
