By Joseph Lane [email protected] Last month, the Oxford Dictionary selected its “word of the year.” For those unfamiliar, Oxford’s word of the year is a tradition that dates back several decades....

By Zach Weigel [email protected] It’s hard to believe Week 13 of the NFL season is now in the books, and it’s even harder to believe the NFL is experiencing significantly lower ratings than...

By Beau Elliot [email protected] So we see that Donald Trump, soon to become the Tweet-in-Chief, if not the Trump-ahontas-in-Chief, has named Ben Carson to be head of HUD. That would be the Department...

By Hannah Soyer [email protected] In the week following the presidential election, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a statement condemning the rise of hateful acts and violence. “Let me be...

By Vivian Medithi [email protected] On Nov. 30, I saw the film Officer Downe at FilmScene, a movie about a cop in a futuristic Los Angeles dystopia who is repeatedly sent on suicide missions by...

By Rebecca Fernandez [email protected] On Nov. 30, comedian Mo Amer boarded his flight to Scotland and made his way over to his seat only to find the place beside him occupied by Eric Trump,...

By Marcus Brown [email protected] An often-overlooked component of journalism is the psychological toll it can have on the people writing the news. When one thinks of jobs where one would run the...

By HANNA GRISSEL [email protected] Earlier this month, Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, published in the New York Times what he might consider a “leftists jab at...

By Grant Davis [email protected] While visiting home this past week, I became bored and decided to revisit the popular gay dating app Grindr. When using the app, I began to notice a very prominent...

By Jack Dugan [email protected] The Bismarck Tribune reported the other day that those who deliver supplies to the now-massive Standing Rock camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, could face fines...

By Zach Weigel [email protected] While many of us enjoyed our all-too-short fall break by gathering around the dinner table with family and friends, we may have forgotten that another potential...

By Joseph Lane [email protected] As Donald Trump has started to fill out his Cabinet, many of the fears held by Democrats (and anti-Trump voters in general) have been confirmed. His likely Cabinet...