
Most people alive in America today have probably never had the experience of sending a telegram. There are a host of reasons for this, the main one being that the telegram stopped being fashionable decades ago as burgeoning technology replaced its use in the modern world. The very last Western Union telegram was sent 11
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In the last few years, it seems like one issue has been ushered to the forefront of education more than others: bullying. It’s easy to see why this has happened, for while bullying is something that no one likes to be on the receiving end of, many have experienced it at one time or another,
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President Donald Trump slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., early Wednesday for his role in launching the program that reportedly allowed an extremist onto American soil. Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, 29, a green card holder from Uzbekistan, mowed down pedestrians and bicyclists in a rented truck Tuesday afternoon in lower Manhattan before crashing into a school bus. He
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Regardless of how one feels about the theory of white privilege, it’s still, for now, just that: a theory. Anti-discrimination laws, on the other hand, are very real. Someone perhaps should remind Madeleine Leader of this fact. Leader, the Democratic National Committee Data Services Manager, reportedly made what is likely a very illegal request in
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Fear may be as old as life on Earth. It is a fundamental, deeply wired reaction, evolved over the history of biology, to protect organisms against perceived threat to their integrity or existence. Fear may be as simple as a cringe of an antenna in a snail that is touched, or as complex as existential
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When Martin Luther published his 95 theses 500 years ago this month, so the story goes, his general target was the corruption of the church. But he also had a very particular organisation in his sights. By October 1517, the extraordinary reach and power of the Fugger banking family was threatening not only the integrity
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