Rent control is blocked by law in Oregon and has been since 1985. More and more Oregonians are clamoring for a repeal of the ban as rent prices rise in…
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…
Side hustle: one job just isn’t enough
According to data released on Sept. 16 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, growth in wages continues to fall short of the constant upward trend in the Consumer Price Index….
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…
It’s time we talk about the Tiahrt Amendment
I am not an anti sort of person and I want to make that very clear. If it were up to me, almost everything would be legal. (I’m talking about…
Age segregation limits learning opportunities
When we think of segregation in America, the first thing that probably comes to mind is race. America has a long history of racial segregation and it’s still prevalent today….
Chilly Willy Sexytimes
No Sexytime writes: On a night not long ago, I had sex with a man I’ve been friends with for about a year and the sex was just terrible. I…
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…