“TL;DR: I dated Zoe Quinn,” begins the last section of Eron Gjoni’s blog post about breaking up with his game developer girlfriend. “I thought she was the most amazing, kind hearted person in the world.” And then: “Turns out she was bullshitting pretty much everything I fell in love with her for.” It’s difficult to … Read more
With thousands of young adults suddenly free of the parental yoke, it is no surprise that sex plays a large role in college. And with sex comes the necessity for colleges to engage students in sexual health conversations that encourage and support safe and healthy sexual decisions. These conversations are especially pertinent given that students … Read more
In a recent poll for the French presidential election in 2017, far-right politician Marine Le Pen is polling ahead of the president of France by a whopping eight percentage points. This is the continuation of a long trend that has skyrocketed her party to the top of French politics. Mrs. Le Pen’s numbers indicate that … Read more
Before taping the second-ever episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver implored members of the audience not to internalize their laughter like they do when watching comedy programs at home. The studio audience must laugh hard and externally, he explained, or the show will not work. He began with a quick recap of … Read more
DC Comics recently announced that a Wonder Woman movie will come out in 2017. While this news is exciting for feminists, comic book fans, and moviegoers, this movie announcement should illuminate the broader problem of diversity representation in superhero movies. Despite the fact that Wonder Woman ranks number five in IGN’s list of the “Top … Read more
It was about six years ago that I first realized that I was a Muslim living in the West. My seventh grade class was embarking on the standard American pilgrimage to Disney World from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. I was among the last of us to pass through the metal detector, and as I crossed … Read more
Much like the seventh-inning stretch and the post-Thanksgiving nap, secession ranks high among American pastimes. Alongside the more well known – the South from the North, the United States from Britain – there have been more than fifty proposals calling for municipalities to secede and form new states since the nation’s founding. The most recent … Read more
Ebola has hit West Africa hard. As of this writing, the CDC reports that the virus has infected more than 8,000 people and claimed the lives of more than 4,000 in the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria since April. With a case fatality rate higher than 50 percent, governments have … Read more
Students from the Asian & Pacific Islander community share their experiences about being Asian American at Harvard and getting involved with Asian American spaces on campus. Designed to promote solidarity among all Asian and Asian Americans, “Perspectives” was initiated and organized by Harvard students who identify as Asian American and Pacific Islander. The event was … Read more
Washington is broken. Mired in partisan gridlock, the federal government is barely able to pay its own bills let alone deal with the nation’s long-term problems. From our struggling economy to our failing schools to our broken immigration system, we face a deficit of leadership. It’s no wonder the American people have no faith in … Read more