Cards Against Humanity, America’s crudest and most popular form of competitive fill-in-the-blank games, is no stranger to the 2016 presidential election cycle. In May, the company released the “Donald Trump Bug-Out Bag,” a duffel bag packed with emergency food rations, a gas mask, an application to become a Mexican citizen, and other tools for surviving “the collapse of civilization…

The emotional connection an audience feels to film is somewhat of a conundrum. The onscreen talent are professionals, playing fictional roles, most often following storylines of similarly fictional people. The empathy we, the audience, feels for the characters, however, is tangible, as those of us who have been brought to tears watching some of our…

As a medical student, I remember reading books about the early days of the HIV epidemic and wondering what it was like for doctors to take care of patients who had a new, unknown disease. It seemed to me like it would be frightening for both patients and doctors alike. I didn’t expect that early…

You may have noticed something a little off with business signs, newspaper names, and show titles over the last few days. It’s a small but significant change: The letters A, B, and O have been disappearing from signs, front pages, and websites in an effort to raise awareness for blood donation around the globe.  The…

Stay calm everyone, Florida hasn’t been called… yet.  Sure, the election isn’t as big of a slam dunk for Hillary Clinton as we once thought, but that doesn’t mean the fat lady has sung. As of 6:20 p.m. PST, Clinton and Donald Trump are still neck and neck in the polls in Florida (and reminder: Broward…

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A week after Donald Trump won enough electoral votes to clinch the presidency, CEO Bill Penzey of Penzeys Spices released a company newsletter that took many by surprise. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Penzey admonished the president-elect for his racist vitriol and rejected the Republican Party’s “open embrace of racism,” saying it has unleashed a…

In a move that could greatly disappoint his base but is likely to be welcomed by the public at large, President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he won’t pursue any potential investigation of Hillary Clinton tied to her use of a private email server while Secretary of State. “It’s just not something that I…

The political world was a little stunned to see Donald Trump’s wife Melania deliver a speech in the closing days of the 2016 election. After all, it turned out her perfectly nice sounding public remarks at the Republican National Convention turned out to be heavily plagiarizeed from a speech First Lady Michelle Obama gave years…

“I would have voted for Trump” is the new shot heard round the world. It’s too bad a sound bite like that is bound to be irrelevant in 24 hours. You’d think we’d have learned our lesson: that you always have to look at the broader context. The big picture. If you paid attention to Kanye’s Sacramento…