In North Carolina, a law imposing severe restrictions on voting was struck down by a federal appeal court on July 29, and this ruling could be considered a huge win for proponents of democracy and racial...
Awave of terrorism attacks have left numerous dead and injured in Germany over the course of only a week, raising questions of public paranoia and heightened suspicion over the influx of migrant refugees...
Last week, the state Board of Regents approved a tuition increase for students at the University of Iowa, Iowa State, and the University of Northern Iowa. The official increase was announced roughly one...
Over the past couple of years, there has been what seems like an unprecedented level of terrorism in the Western world. While radical terrorist organizations have always been at odds with the Western way...
On July 15, a coup d’état perpetrated by mutinous factions of Turkey’s military threatened the presidency of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan until it was all but put down by the night of July...
The cellphone has become an indispensible tool for the majority of the population and has become such a staple for existence in the 21st century that the implications of its use seem to pale in comparison...
The shooting rampage in Dallas, which claimed the lives of five police officers, ended with suspect Micah Xavier Johnson being killed by a targeted C-4 explosives delivered by a machine called the Remotec...
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s blatant xenophobia and bigotry have become staples for his campaign, which has garnered the support of the some of the most skewed ideologies present in...
This past weekend, as America began to celebrate, somewhat prematurely, the 240th anniversary of its independence, the world lost one of its best. Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor,...
In a 6-2 vote on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that unintentional or “reckless” domestic-assault charges will count as a misdemeanor triggering the federal ban on firearm ownership in the state of...
It is no secret that large swaths of the population go to sleep hungry and wake up even hungrier. Ending world hunger is often used as an example of a lofty goal with no foreseeable solution, and it is...
According to the National Park System’s website, President Theodore Roosevelt once wrote, “We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources. But the time has come to inquire seriously...
