A friend of a friend, a girl I never really knew, died in a car accident this past weekend, just days after graduating from Yale University. No one ever really knows what to say when a tragedy happens because there is nothing to say, not really.
On Wednesday afternoon during an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts, President Barack Obama once again made history by becoming the first sitting president to publicly endorse gay marriage.
This past winter, hundreds of thousands of people banded together to strike down the Stop Online Piracy Act before it became law.
We all laughed at our mothers when they told us, "Be careful what you post online it will be out there for anyone to see... forever!" Oh, Mom.
If you haven't had the opportunity to watch AMC's now-defunct TV show "Rubicon," you should. The show, which ran from June to October 2010, tells the story of an analyst at a private intelligence firm who discovers he may be an unwitting participant in a secret society that manipulates world events for personal profit. The title and storyline play off of Caesar's famous river crossing in 49 B.C.
Given that much of the Occupy movement has come in from the cold city streets around the world to organize indoors, many protestors have been asking: What now?
Peter Blair's recent column ("Marriage Without Meaning," Jan. 20) makes a cowardly and logically unsound argument against gay marriage.
The internet is in danger. Actually though.Under the terms of two recently introduced companion bills, the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act, the internet as we know it could come to an end.
Last week, Kevin Francfort '15 argued that although it is "important to remember" the environmental concerns posed by hydraulic fracturing, a controversial mining practice used to extract natural gas, our nation should support the technique even if that support comes at the cost of pursuing renewable and clean energy technologies ("In Favor of Fracking," Nov.
The New York Times reported on Monday that at least three dozen state legislatures the majority of which are Republican-controlled have put forth initiatives to make drug testing a prerequisite for all manner of public assistance: welfare, unemployment and food stamps, to name a few.