Dan Holmqvist

The explosion of interest in an obscure Ugandan warlord, Joseph Kony, in the past two weeks has been dramatic. One 30-minute documentary has inspired millions of young adults and celebrities, from Rihanna to Oprah to Angelina Jolie, to pledge their support to the Invisible Children organization, who has made it their mission to [...]

Paige Yurek

Journalism, particularly print, is a dying breed, and frankly, it can be taken for granted.  Let’s be honest.  Today, a majority of us pick up a newspaper (or rather, click to an online web page, or worse, “Google” a  topic,) and are quickly informed by the latest headlines and almost instantly know the [...]

Dan Holmqvist

Young people today have been placed at a disadvantage even more so than most ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities in America. From further inaccessibility to higher education, to high youth unemployment, to a marginalized political voice, the trend has been troubling for young Americans.

It has been harder to get an education because [...]

Tunisia. Yemen. Egypt. Yemen again. Libya. Wis­consin. Charlie Sheen. Japan. Libya again. A day or two of Rebecca Black. Libya.

As a collective whole, the United States has gone from wholly apathetic to the rest of the world’s problems to captivated by the selfless revolutionaries in the Middle East to utterly addicted to the 24 hour news cycle.