Have you ever taken your headphones off on the train and listened to the ramblings of everyone around you? Most likely, you heard about a bad date, what happened in a meeting or what was for dinner that...
What does the United States have in common with Somalia, North Korea, Sudan, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya? They're the seven countries rated most corrupt by Transparency International. Each...
With last week being earth week, what once was a week to reflect on the ecological problems we face has been turned into a sort of climate Halloween in which environmentalists go door to door and try...
In the midst of Freddie Gray’s death and the Baltimore riots, an injustice in Chicago has gone practically unnoticed by the national news media. While headlines reading “unarmed black man shot by...
It is possible that Wal-Mart is closing stores for repairs. It is much more likely that Wal-Mart is closing stores to silence activism.
According to the LA Times, a Wal-Mart store in Pico Rivera, California...
As the discussion on what it means to consent has gained popularity on college campuses, advocates push to bring the topic to a younger audience
One in five women in college are sexually assaulted....
This past week, Kendrick Lamar’s latest album, “To Pimp A Butterfly,” eclipsed 500,000 sales.
J. Cole’s album, “2014 Forest Hills Drive,” became the first album to reach platinum status...
The minimum meal plan for first-year DePaul students living in residence halls costs $1,175 per quarter. That’s roughly $98 per week, or $13 per day. This is over three times as much as low-income...
No college student expects to be taught by a teacher living on the edge of poverty. While student tuition continues to rise, more and more university faculty members are working part time for low pay....
As a gay man, I have come to understand that my sexuality is really none of anyone else’s business. As a member of the media, I have come to understand that everyone’s business is my business, including...
In December 2014, transgender teen Leelah Alcorn committed suicide. Before committing suicide, Alcorn wrote on her Tumblr page,“If you are reading this, it means that I have committed suicide and...
As a Global Zero activist and proponent of total nuclear disarmament, I find the fact that another nation could likely join the nine nuclear weapons countries extremely unsettling.
In a world that...
