President Barack Obama visited my home state of Michigan last week to do something I haven’t seen him do in a while: sign into law a significant bill that wasn’t related to a self-inflicted crisis, like the budget impasse of 2013, and was passed by a Democratic-controlled Senate and a Republican-controlled House.
Some days, you just want to be more than one person.
Happy Winter Olympics! This week, I’m trading in my video games to keep my eyes glued to the events in Sochi.
Perhaps it’s time to make some cuts to Intercollegiate Athletics and make the division more student-centered.
Typically, the Olympics are a time of joy and pride when athletes and fans come together to compete and cheer for their native countries on the international stage. Joy and pride however, are not the first emotions that come to mind when thinking about the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, which started competition last week.
Gentle products are preferable to heavy-duty ones, which will further irritate your skin.
This week has been a hard one for those of us tuned into rape culture in the media. Between the astonishing number of Twitter users who felt that “rape” was an apt word to describe the Broncos’ Super Bowl loss to the Seahawks and the army of Woody Allen apologists calling Dylan Farrow a liar for writing about childhood abuse, there was barely any time to register the story coming to light about the University of Akron discouraging students from filing sexual assault reports.
If Hillary Clinton could overcome an arguably poor image after the Benghazi scandal that plagued the last few months of her Secretary of State tenure, can New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie move past the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal?
I’ve always been interested in knowing the things nobody tells you — or at least, the things not many people tell you. I hate feeling like I’ve missed a vital piece of advice that could have made something a lot easier, less stressful and frankly, just more enjoyable.
I was planning on writing something really great this week, but then I got addicted to Flappy Bird.
The multilingual song prompted #SpeakAmerican to trend on Twitter.
Dear BedPost,
I keep getting a lot of emails from Teach for America recruiters asking me to apply. I’d like to ask them to stop.
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