Although we love to view the world in absolutes, things are seldom black and white. Heroes have skeletons in their closets and assholes secretly donate money to the ...
When more than 300 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped by the purportedly Islamist militant terrorist group Boko Haram in April, a global Internet firestorm ignited. Nigerian tweeters began their ...
Twitter’s mind-boggling worldwide popularity can likely be attributed to the use of brevity to contextualize personal experience. In a fast-paced age, 140-character messages are quick enough to convey ...
If you’ve grazed trending top stories or tuned into evening news programming over the past few weeks, you’ve probably gained awareness of the political and social unrest that’s ...
Based out of Rome, Italy through the United Nations World Food Programme, Freerice is an organization that prides itself on two very noble mission statements: 1. “Provide education ...
President Obama is set to deliver a speech on the NSA reforms he plans to implement in the wake of massive backlash his administration has encountered as a ...
Less than a week before Nelson Mandela died at age 95 from a long enduring illness, Irish rock band U2 released a tribute song in honor of the ...
It doesn’t seem real that the clock is ticking into the last days of 2013. The nostalgia is kicking in and I find myself reflecting on some monumental ...
Many moons ago and most likely in a land far, far away, someone decided that college students should have the option to pack up their scholarly routines and ...
This week, leaders of the world’s most important countries traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, for the eighth biannual G-20 meeting – ostensibly an opportunity for a discussion of ...
