For most of the country, elections—national, state and local—were over sometime during the week of November 3. It was a harrowing week for Americans as the fate of the nation …
Exclusives
The Electoral College Is Bad for Democracy
The person with the most votes wins. Right? Wrong. In America, the popular vote—the total number of votes for one presidential candidate—does not determine the election. Rather, the Electoral College …
STEMpathy: Incorporating EQ Into the Classroom
From the time we are six years old heading off to Kindergarten, most of us spend the next 13 years minimum in a formal school setting learning everything from biology …
Vincent van Gogh’s Death: Suicide or Murder?
*Content Warning: Mentions of suicide, murder, death and mental illness* Vincent van Gogh, a 19th century Dutch impressionist, is remembered both for his revolutionary art and extraordinary life. In northern …
The Post-Halloween Damage from Cultural Appropriation
Amidst a pandemic, what a person wears as a Halloween costume is not necessarily the biggest concern of 2020. However, for years the damage of cultural appropriation has been overlooked …
The History of Those Pants You Bought the Other Day
Growing up, the idea of clothes being made beyond fascinated me. I thought all about the different types of machines used to dye, cut, and design each garment. I had …
The Show Must Go On!
The deadly COVID-19 virus came to destroy our world this past year. However, fashion stops for nothing and new trends took over the runway this past season. From London to …
Protecting Ourselves
“We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It’s as simple as that.” – The Truman Show While the reality we are presented with might not be …
Your Voice – Your Vote
The right to vote: the cornerstone of our democracy. People have given their lives so that we may have this cherished right, so that we may have our voices heard. …
Quarantine Dreams
I would not consider myself a dreamer, at least when it comes to the actual subconscious phenomena of dreaming that occurs during sleep. The first few weeks of quarantine, I …