Remove the stigma

Mental illness is not a rare thing: Almost one in every five adults in the U.S. experiences mental illness in a given year. Still, society often acts as if mental…

The right to bare breasts

Breastfeeding has been the most natural way of feeding infants since the beginning of human existence. Still, the act makes many people wildly uncomfortable. In fact it makes people so…

Paralympics for the gold

There’s no doubt that the Olympics are popular. According to the International Olympic Committee, almost 3.6 billion people watched at least one minute of the summer games held in Rio….

Spare student-athletes your hate

I went through a time in my life when I thought everything revolved around high school sports. Despite my passion, sports were part of my past long before graduation came,…

The chill future of Netflix

Netflix is beautiful. If you analyze it and dive down deep enough, this becomes the one thing that ties us all together—everyone has a Netflix account. (If you don’t, you…

Where in the world are the Mariana Islands?

Something amazing happened at this year’s Democratic National Convention, and if you were one of the people who lived through the media’s coverage of the event, you might have noticed…

Common sense in gerrymandering

Gerrymandering is like the boogeyman. This is a term trotted out and displayed by both Republican and Democratic politicians when their party loses hold of district seats. Gerrymandering is commonly…