by Craig Nash | May 29, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
With high school graduation season in full gear, young adults are shifting their attention to the rest of their lives. Which, if you ask anyone over the age of forty, is a tad ambitious. Thankfully, they are living in a time when society is placing less pressure to...
by Laura Stephens-Reed | Feb 23, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
My son, who is ten years old, is just starting to get into board games. Not long ago, he asked the question I have been dreading: can we play Monopoly? Because he is my only child, I humored him. My strategy was to buy as many properties as possible and load them up...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Oct 20, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Capitalism is devouring itself. The greatest threat to entrepreneurship is the savage neoliberal global economic order which has developed. No longer does financial opportunity exist for the one who builds a better mousetrap. Our current neoliberal order suffocates...
by Wendell Griffen | Sep 20, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
“To Kill a Mockingbird” is Harper Lee’s classic novel about racial injustice. In chapter 22, we read an unforgettable line spoken by Miss Maudie, a white woman, to Jem Finch, a white boy. Jem’s father is a lawyer, Atticus Finch. And Atticus had just...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Jan 17, 2023 | Opinion
It’s January, and you know what that means: an endless barrage of “New Year, New You” advertisements from every marketing outlet available. I’ve lost count of the number of ads I’ve seen for gym memberships, diet supplements, weight loss surgery and meal plans – all...