Marked by heavy layers of black clothing, comically tall boots, eccentric eyeliner, and coils of silver chains, goth subculture emerged in 1970s Britain as an offshoot of the punk movement. Since then, both subcultures have mainstreamed radical, anti...
A statement by President Donald Trump on November 1, 2018: “Mass, uncontrolled immigration is especially unfair to the many wonderful, law-abiding immigrants already living here who followed the rules and waited their turn. Some have been waiting f...
The first mental illness attributed to women, and one of the most prolific for four millennia, was so-called “female hysteria.” An amalgamation of symptoms that would be considered both mood and personality disorders in the modern Diagnostic and ...
Art by Kristine Mar. Demos kratia, Greek for “people rule,” better known as “democracy” in English, has meant various things for various peoples, but today we widely value it as consent of the governed. A fundamental tenet of American...
Art by Kristine Mar. Demos kratia, Greek for “people rule,” better known as “democracy” in English, has meant various things for various peoples, but today we widely value it as consent of the governed. A fundamental tenet of American...
Art by Soraya Ferdman. Facebook statuses, tweets and Instagram posts have all been credited as by-products of a new, stream of consciousness, millennial culture prone to over-sharing and broadcasting “inappropriate” behavior. However, a new wave ...
Art by Soraya Ferdman. Facebook statuses, tweets and Instagram posts have all been credited as by-products of a new, stream of consciousness, millennial culture prone to over-sharing and broadcasting “inappropriate” behavior. However, a new wave ...
Art by Julia Ladics. The basis of US politics has come to strikingly resemble the computer binary system. Our political dialogue has come to take the ideological authority of the two-party duopoly as given, and our political rhetoric has become black...
Art by Julia Ladics. The basis of US politics has come to strikingly resemble the computer binary system. Our political dialogue has come to take the ideological authority of the two-party duopoly as given, and our political rhetoric has become black...
Infographic by Keren Alfred. Everyday, 271 million Twitter users send 500 million tweets into the online world, creating a huge collection of public commentary. While most users are interested in celebrities and entertainment, substantial political d...
Infographic by Keren Alfred. Everyday, 271 million Twitter users send 500 million tweets into the online world, creating a huge collection of public commentary. While most users are interested in celebrities and entertainment, substantial political d...
“We adopted a boy from Guatemala who is 7 years old…and he has attachment issues…Today was the last straw — he is just getting worse and worse. We must dissolve this adoption for our sanity!” This is a direct quotation from “Adopting-from...
“We adopted a boy from Guatemala who is 7 years old…and he has attachment issues…Today was the last straw — he is just getting worse and worse. We must dissolve this adoption for our sanity!” This is a direct quotation from “Adopting-from...
There’s a pretty good chance I’m being tracked by the NSA. After some questionable Google searches for this article, some in-depth readings on anonymity browsers, and an accidental download of a view at your own risk PDF entitled “Basically eve...
There’s a pretty good chance I’m being tracked by the NSA. After some questionable Google searches for this article, some in-depth readings on anonymity browsers, and an accidental download of a view at your own risk PDF entitled “Basically eve...
Art by Julia Rosenfield. A riddle: An award-winning journalist with his own CNN segment and Washington Post column is accused of plagiarism. The accusers claim that for over 20 years of his career, the journalist has paraphrased, improperly quoted or...
Art by Julia Rosenfield. A riddle: An award-winning journalist with his own CNN segment and Washington Post column is accused of plagiarism. The accusers claim that for over 20 years of his career, the journalist has paraphrased, improperly quoted or...
Few things in this country are ever neutral. Surprisingly, the Internet seems to be one of the few. It is the platform on which opinions are expressed, ideas are disseminated and passions run awry. The World Wide Web is an embodiment of modernity. It...
Few things in this country are ever neutral. Surprisingly, the Internet seems to be one of the few. It is the platform on which opinions are expressed, ideas are disseminated and passions run awry. The World Wide Web is an embodiment of modernity. It...
Art by Kwang Choi. Buddy Cianci has dominated Providence politics ever since first being elected mayor in 1974. For the past 40 years, Cianci has influenced the city’s politics from in and out of City Hall — even from federal prison. There are tw...
Art by Kwang Choi. Buddy Cianci has dominated Providence politics ever since first being elected mayor in 1974. For the past 40 years, Cianci has influenced the city’s politics from in and out of City Hall — even from federal prison. There are tw...
The Internet has democratized information. Websites have effectively eradicated the barriers to access that once prevented individuals from obtaining the information that is readily accessible today. In theory, Google is available to anyone, rich or ...
The Internet has democratized information. Websites have effectively eradicated the barriers to access that once prevented individuals from obtaining the information that is readily accessible today. In theory, Google is available to anyone, rich or ...
It’s a well-worn cliché that older generations complain about their descendants’ privileges, but that doesn’t mean that it is any less justified. Parents seem to take a special joy in reminding their children that when they were learning calcu...
It’s a well-worn cliché that older generations complain about their descendants’ privileges, but that doesn’t mean that it is any less justified. Parents seem to take a special joy in reminding their children that when they were learning calcu...
Dear Reader, Control of the House of Representatives and the Senate can make or break a president’s agenda, and the Art by Emily Reif 2014 midterm elections will likely prove to do the same. With that in mind, we’ve created a project design to sh...
Dear Reader, Control of the House of Representatives and the Senate can make or break a president’s agenda, and the Art by Emily Reif 2014 midterm elections will likely prove to do the same. With that in mind, we’ve created a project design to sh...