This past summer, I was fortunate enough to have the experience of interning in Washington, D.C. at what some refer to as “Boehnerland.”My time in Speaker Boehner’s congressional office gave me an...
Yesterday marked the first day of fall, but Starbucks began serving Pumpkin Spice drinks weeks before cooler weather hit.Beyond coffee cups scrawled with the infamous "PSL" on the side, companies have...
Editor’s note: This is in response to Jessa Schroeder’s opinion piece titled, “The cargo pants trend needed to end before it started” published on Sept. 17.You call them "dorky," "outdated" and...
When you picture a successful business person, characteristics that often come to mind are great leadership skills, ambitious, a competitive nature and a go-getter.
Yes, these are a few excellent examples...
As a casual political mind, I don’t watch too much of CNN or similar channels, but one thing I do see all the time is Donald Trump’s name.Trump is always in the headlines. Good or bad, that doesn’t...
Actress Viola Davis won an Emmy Sunday for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role in “How to Get Away with Murder,” the first African-American women to win the award.Davis gave a passionate...
The in-house battle between Republican presidential candidates and Donald Trump has taken its first dramatic step. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a major candidate just months ago, has officially ended...
In June, Pope Francis released a remarkable encyclical on "care for our common home," the Earth. He called climate change a "global problem with grave implications," and described our response to date...
In light of the recent wrongful arrest of Ahmed Mohamed — an affront towards Islam — presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson recently made comments implying that Muslims should be of...
Before anything else, I am Brazilian. I was not raised in a Republican or Democratic family. I did not grow up in a country led by George W. Bush neither am I directly impacted by most of Obama’s policies....
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old teenager who was arrested after teachers at his Texas school mistook his home built clock for a bomb has made recent headlines. The use of certain terms to describe Ahmed...
The U.S. Census Bureau announced Wednesday that, while median household incomes and official poverty rates remain stagnant, more Americans have health coverage. Employment-based insurance isn’t helping...
