No matter how hard parents try to teach their kids to be tolerant and to feel free to express themselves, there’s a big world out there just waiting to put them in a box.  Even though society is slowly becoming more accepting of those who disregard traditional gender norms, children can still be very cruel….

President Barack Obama will be finally making a trip to Flint, Michigan—a city that has been fighting an ongoing water crisis since April 2014—next week, answering the request of 8-year old Flint activist, Mari Copeny. The young organizer, known locally as Little Miss Flint, wrote the president a letter in March asking him to visit…

One of the legal pathways to becoming a U.S. citizen is for immigrants to serve in the military. For some soldiers, that door is now closed. The Associated Press reports that several men and women who were serving in the U.S. military under a special immigrant recruiting program have been discharged, and some face deportation. An…

Every year during the NCAA’s College Basketball Tournament — more fondly known as March Madness — a “Cinderella” story emerges, and an underdog team wins our hearts and gets a chance to play in the big dance. One of the most exciting Cinderella stories in the Final Four happened in 2011, when Butler University fought…

There was a major twist ending and a major snafu at the very end of the 2017 Academy Awards for the category of Best Picture. The wrong winner was declared. If you look back on the footage and analyze it, you could read on Warren Beatty’s face that something was not right just before the Best Picture winner was announced. Typography is the…

Sam Gordon, the internet’s most famous female football player, still remembers the reactions at her first practice. The Utah eighth grader tried out for the boys tackle league in Salt Lake City when she was nine years old. “I was first in every single speed and agility drill. The coaches would look at their timer…

Embed from Getty Images     The Chicago Cubs, finally, are World Series champions. With their dramatic Game 7 win over the Cleveland Indians early Thursday morning, the Cubs collected their first World Series title since 1908. At the time of that World Series, Teddy Roosevelt was president, Ford had just introduced the Model T,…

Creative people often perform an ongoing balance of internal strength and external openness.  Few creatives know this delicate balance more than rapper Kanye West, the multifaceted artist who faces both critical acclaim and public scorn on a daily basis.    After an 11-month absence from Twitter, West recently returned to the platform to annouce two new albums and…

When shopping for clothes online, the vast majority of women have to constantly ask themselves the following question: “What will it look like on me?” Why? Because most of the time the models in the catalog are a size two, while 68% of American women are a size 14 or above.  This massive gap between…

On a Wednesday night in February, I watched in frustration as NBC News fretted about the “out of control” protest at the UC-Berkeley Campus, led by “anarchists” against Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopolus, who’d been invited to speak by the Berkeley College Republicans. Though the fire and the broken windows were alarming to some, I was more discouraged that…