What is it like to live under apartheid?Imagine rifling through papers at military checkpoints between where you live and where you work. Imagine tall fences with barbed wire severing your home from precious...
While the debate about school safety continues in wake of recent school shooting scares, another story involving schools has possibly gone unnoticed by much of the country. Over the past week, teachers...
Every night, before I fall asleep, I spend anywhere between 10 minutes to an hour on my phone. Usually, it’s scrolling through Twitter, finding a random tweet thread about the astrological signs as “Muppets”...
In the wake of the school shooting that left 17 people, many of them teenagers, dead — the latest episode in the tightly-scheduled programming of American mass murders — gun control proposals permeate...
I’ll be honest: Sometimes, writing about what President Trump does, says or tweets feels a little too easy. Low-hanging fruit and all that, right?“You know, I really believe — you don’t know until...
As we all grieve the horrible school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead — most of them kids — the American argument on guns continues. Most people in this country believes new laws need to...
Dear Editor:I believe that most of us, Americans, have been victims of bullying and/or some form of abuse at some time in our lives. As a former counselor and therapist, I worked with and tried to help...
Across the country, students lead classroom walkouts and protests in solidarity with gun victims. Survivors of the recent Florida massacre formed a coalition to fight against the “new normal” of mass...
Things look bleak.It is hard to watch newsreel of a school shooting and not think of all the other times you watched newsreels of school shootings. It’s a constant reminder of the great, terrible thing...
San Antonio, Texas was surprisingly cold last week. Cold, though, is relative and I was still able to wear shorts without any discomfort most of the time I was there. I was sad to leave.My flight took...
President Trump’s budget proposal is set for some major shake ups. First on Trump’s cutting board are education and health care, making America great by hiking up the cost of living for the working...
This Valentine’s Day was my first real Valentine’s Day. In Brazil, we have a different holiday for couples to celebrate, and since moving to the U.S., I had never been in a relationship during the...
