By Mars Thera Pope     [email protected]  Facebook. A fruitful and chaotic platform for all passionate and dull thoughts to find their way to numerous peoples screens. Whether it be a picture of...

By Dot Armstrong     [email protected] Protests — plural manifestations of dissent — are the new normal. Events of late necessitate, it seems, crowds shouting and waving signs. As Iowa...

By Hanna Grissel [email protected] Since Stephen Bannon joined Donald Trump’s campaign, his influence has been stuck on the back of Trump like a — leach. This isn’t to say Trump and Bannon...

By Joe Lane [email protected] As most of the country’s political debate turned to a new aspect of the refugee crisis propagated by the Trump administration, another battle was raging in the young...

By Dot Armstrong [email protected] This article began as a meditation on the conversations I’ve been curating at the Dance Department with visiting performers. So far this year, these conversations...

By Wylliam Smith [email protected] It’s very well-known that the United States is becoming more conscientious. With the country becoming more accepting of communities such as LGBTQ and Black...

By Zach Weigel [email protected] Could a brick-and-mortar demise be on the horizon? Are our shopping habits driving the market in an e-commerce direction such that we may someday live in a world...

By Laura Townsend [email protected] As I grew up in St. Louis, some of the most valuable relationships of my life were with Muslim Bosnian refugees, who make up a significant population of the...

by Katrina Custardo [email protected] The nominations for this year’s Oscars came out this past week, and this year, the Oscars aren’t so white as they have been in the past. People of color...

by Logan Pillard [email protected] Jan. 27, 2017, will go down in history as the day the American Dream died. With a flick of his tiny hand, President Trump signed an executive order barring the...

By Beau Elliot [email protected] “Confusion is a small price to pay to make America safe.” — the Fake-News-in-Chief Well, if confusion is what he wished for, it’s certainly what he got. Be...

By Daniel Williams [email protected] It is unfortunate that such quaint radical pastimes as flag burning are still believed to be serious political messages. The image is hardly shocking. True, one...