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  • What 8th Graders Had to Know About Geography in 1907

    What 8th Graders Had to Know About Geography in 19070

    • September 18, 2015

    The other week, Slate Magazine ran an article which decried the lack of geography literacy amongst American students. Author Joshua Keating declared, “I still strongly believe primary schools and universities need to do a much better job of educating Americans on the natural and political features of our world. Geographical literacy is a major problem:

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  • What 3 Years Working Retail Taught Me

    What 3 Years Working Retail Taught Me2

    On a whiteboard in a communal space at my university, a student wrote this question: “If you could make one law, what would it be?” The answers, written by students from a variety of different majors, were sometimes funny. “Everyone gets free ice cream on Fridays,” one person wrote. Others were more serious and ideologically

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  • What 1990s True-Crime Shows and Movies Teach about America Today

    What 1990s True-Crime Shows and Movies Teach about America Today0

    “The more things change the more they stay the same.” Originally a French saying believed to have been coined in 1849, this phrase perfectly describes our current national obsession with revisiting the great media frenzies of the 1990s.  In 2016 Americans relived the drama of the O.J. Simpson trial with the documentary O.J.: Made in

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  • What 19 in 20 Americans Don’t Know About World Poverty

    What 19 in 20 Americans Don’t Know About World Poverty0

    An overwhelming majority—95 percent—of Americans are confused about the state of global poverty. A survey from the late Hans Rosling’s web project Gapminder assessed the public’s knowledge on that subject. The survey asked twelve thousand people in fourteen countries if, over the last two decades, the proportion of the world’s population living in extreme poverty has a)

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  • What ‘The Little Mermaid’ Really Teaches About Unrequited Love

    What ‘The Little Mermaid’ Really Teaches About Unrequited Love0

    Ah, unrequited love! It’s the bane of any young daydreamer. The Little Mermaid is a great story that teaches how to deal with such sorrowful heartbreak: accept reality and abandon selfish schemes. Perhaps you’re thinking: “Wait. That’s not what happens in the Disney movie!” In remembering The Little Mermaid from our childhood and anticipating Disney’s

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  • What ‘Fixer Upper’ Taught Us About Marriage

    What ‘Fixer Upper’ Taught Us About Marriage0

    In their years on HGTV’s show, Fixer Upper, hosts Chip and Joanna Gaines achieved far more than merely getting Americans to embrace open floor plans and shiplap; they made marriage look fun again. The Texas couple’s decision to end the show after soon-to-be-aired Season Five ensures it won’t devolve into them simply playing certain roles,

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