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Not So Black-and-White

Since 1944, Middle Eastern- and North African-Americans have been legally “white." However, within the last years, the decades-old movement for creating a separate MENA category on the U.S. census has been reinvigorated, shedding light on how MENA identity differs from mainstream white identity.

The Bollywood Dilemma

A close analysis underscores how Bollywood perpetuates India’s culture of gender violence and constantly places Indian women under siege. While Bollywood has produced movies that portray strong female leads and directly address rape, marriage, gender stereotypes, and child sex trafficking, Bollywood still encourages notions of inferiority by objectifying women — specifically, through “eve-teasing” and “item” songs

The Factory of Words

The French Academy’s primary mission is the consolidation and creation of French words into a comprehensive dictionary. A regulatory body and a semi-political institution, perhaps the French Academy could even be called a factory of words.

Piracy Prevails

While consumers once championed streaming services as the answer to cable woes, streaming services now risk the same fate as cable by offering consumers...

Striking a Balance

You are touring through Europe, going on a weekend vacation, or hitting the hot spots in a new city. Scrolling through Twitter or Instagram,...

The Alt-Right as Counterculture: Memes, Video Games and Violence

The Christchurch massacre on March 15 utterly shocked the world with its brutality, devastating a Muslim community which  thought itself safe from the forces...

The Hatred of Comedy

When I inevitably quit comedy, I’ll tell people the truest version of the story: that I started writing it to feel like myself again until it came at the expense of that very thing, and I’d rather be human and occasionally funny than funny and occasionally human.

Replacing Newsfeeds for Newspapers: The Detriments of Using Facebook for News

If Facebook is replacing the most traditional form of news dissemination, one would hope that its quality is comparable. But, overwhelmed by an abundance of information, selective exposure, and ‘filter bubbles’, this new avenue for news may estrange or even polarize Americans long before it aids them.

It Was Never About the Emails

What’s HRC looking at? Oh….got it. ☕️☕️ Via @BraddJaffy pic.twitter.com/KNQ81MiyZL — Yashar (@yashar) March 3, 2017 This picture might just be the greatest irony of today’s extraordinarily...

Punch Drunk: The Ban on Tackling in Ivy League Football and its Repercussions

In late February, the eight Ivy League football coaches unanimously chose to eliminate all full contact hitting in practices. The move I considered the...