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Sophia Williams
Jan 3
Anxiety? We All Know Her
Anxiety from Inside Out 2 The kids are not alright. At least according to Inside Out 2 , which portrays its everyman character, Riley: a...

Gabrielle Barke
Jan 3
"You're Very Polite but I Belong to Another Generation:" The Great Gatsby’s Meyer Wolfsheim on Broadway
Eric Anderson as Meyer Wolfsheim on Broadway (Popbytes) “A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine...

Fatima Privitt
Jan 3
“Don’t Touch My Hair: The Amplified Voices of The Black Diaspora in Solange’s A Seat at the Table”
Cover of Solange's A Seat at the Table Studio Album Released September 30, 2016, Solange Knowles’ A Seat at the Table, is an...

Jack Parmach
Jan 3
Man Up George Bailey! – Masculinity In It’s A Wonderful Life
In his darkest hour, George Bailey finds solace in the friends he made along the way Four years ago, I watched It’s A Wonderful Life for...

Anushka Shah
Jan 3
Thank you Electoral College! - Sincerely, Project 2025
A dystopian Washington D.C. in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale , Season 3 Episode 6. Vote, they tell us. Fulfill your civic duty. Let your...

Autumn Brooks
Jan 3
“Hey! You Suck!”: Fan Culture and The Desire to Belong
Student section at a University of Maryland vs. University of Southern California football game When surrounded by hundreds of other...

Morgan O’Connell
Jan 3
Why Maryland Should Eliminate Single-Family Zoning
Single-family zoning is a legal practice that prohibits the construction or use of multi-family housing — such as duplexes, multiplexes,...

Naomi Nicholas
Jan 3
The Tipping Point: America's Service Workers Deserve More than Spare Change
Image of a display requesting a tip. In a not-so-distant memory, tipping was largely confined to restaurants and bellhops, with the...

Kyra Freeman
Jan 3
From Abolition to Acceleration: The Death Penalty’s Unexpected Return
Deacon Dave Billips protests the execution of Marcellus Williams on September 24th, 2024 in St. Louis Missouri. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis...

Hayden Day
Jan 3
Broken Foundations: The History of Inequality in America’s Public Education
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, in Boston, Massachusetts ( bostonpublicschools.org ). The United States of America was founded...

Gavin Neubauer
Jan 3
When A Segregationist Almost Toppled the Electoral College
Candidate Headshots from Wikimedia Commons In today’s political landscape of cutthroat elections, the Electoral College can cause quite a...

Nishna Makala
Jan 3
You Were Never Supposed To Watch This Movie. Here’s How It Became A Beacon For Peace.
A shot from The Iron Giant showing Hogarth with the titular machine (Bird, The Iron Giant ) It starts with grief. Sometime in the 1990s,...

Caleb Margolis
Jan 3
Prestigious but Unsustainable: The Environmental Cost of the American Lawn
Birds eye view image of planned community with suburban house and plenty of lawn space What is the most irrigated crop in America? Being...

Galen Richardson
Jan 3
Not a Fan of Heavy Metal: Ten Years After the Flint Water Crisis
View of the Flint River/ Photo by Michael Barera On April 24, 2014, the water supply of Flint, Michigan was temporarily transferred to...

Akshya Mahadevan
Jan 3
China's Rare Earth Ban: Environmental Costs and Geopolitical Fallout
On December 21, 2023, China announced a sweeping ban on the export of certain rare earth elements to the United States, sparking a global...

Kayla Hartman
Jan 3
RealPage, Fake Prices
Collage of apartments by the Newark Housing Authority and Federal Housing Administration Imagine, that as a shop owner at a flea market,...

Catherine Harris
Jan 3
Throwing Gas on the Fire: How Trump, Putin, and Others 'Firehouse' You
President Trump speaking at 2018 Helsinki Summit with President Puti (Smialowski /Getty) In about a month, AP projections will transition...

Paige Racine
Jan 3
The Bad & The Ugly: Writing About Violence in the American West
‘Man with No Name’ from Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Two figures stand at the forefront of the Western novel: the...

Christian Burke
Jan 3
Paradise Lost: The Fall of Man and the Limit of Liberalism
The Fall of Adam and Eve, the biblical first parents of mankind Among the great forces which have dethroned tyrants, few stand so...

Ariyana Brittingham
Jan 3
Online Reading and Brainrot: An Analysis of Text Comprehensibility in the Digital
Representational Image of Brain Rot (Dhakatribune) “Books do furnish a room.” A quote from Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One’s Own ....
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