Maybe it’s the 24-hour media cycle, the omnipresence of social media, the rhetoric of the current administration or some combination of those, but according to numerous columns penned in the fall of...
Perhaps this may not be an opinion so much as a freshman advice column today, but I can twist it to make it an opinion: my former self was blind to some truths. This person is not my childhood identity,...
The Sentinelese people, an indigenous community inhabiting North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, were recently of interest to the media when John Allen Chau, a Christian missionary, was killed while...
The partial shutdown of the federal government, which resulted from an impasse between President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress amid his insistence that an appropriations bill include more than $5...
Desire is often seen as weakness, as a suspension of rationale for a kind of primal, emotional freefall. As our desire increases, our mental capacities dim, swerving us off course in a reckless direction....
Not many other countries can commemorate a past leader as legendary as Ronald Reagan. Not many other past presidents of the United States can claim the same amount of approval as Ronald Reagan. Not many...
Although Netflix might not always be the most reliable or essential source for life lessons, one new series may open viewers’ eyes up to the subtle dangers of the world around us. You, one of Netflix’s...
In the small hours of Monday morning, I emerged bleary-eyed and beleaguered from the Amtrak station in Greensboro when my scheduled seven-hour train journey from Washington, D.C. mercifully came to an...
In the midst of all the chaos that has ensued with my returning to Wake Forest after two semesters on break, I finally got to watch the controversial docu-series Surviving R. Kelly. Episode after episode,...
As students come back to campus from winter break, it is common to see renewed ‘fits and fresh kicks that were garnered through shopping and/or the holidays. However, this year marks something new. ...
Last week, President Donald Trump blamed Federal Reserve chairman Jerome (Jay) Powell for a string of negative economic developments, including the stock market’s recent haircut and General Motors’...
Burdened by a burgeoning education, amid my sophomore year I elected English to be my principal field of study: As per this decision, I admit that I have been subject to a veritable smorgasbord of different...
