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Educators are hearing a lot these days about why the humanities need AI. And not surprisingly, many of thosearguments sound like they come straight out of ChatGPT. There are pragmatic arguments about why humanities educators need to deal with AI: LLMs (large learning models) are a 21st century reality, and humanists need to evolve accordingly. […]

Conservatives and progressives do not agree on much these days. But most people can agree that wasting money is a bad idea—especially when it comes to taxpayer dollars from hard-working Americans. So why is the government funding the insect farming industry when it has a growing rap sheet of failed businesses and bankruptcies? Insect farming […]

In yet another brazen attack on Black people and Black history, the current administration removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of fee-free holidays at the 116 national parks, while adding Trump’s June 14 birthday. This symbolic erasure is not accidental and is part of a broader goal to undermine Black dignity, rewrite […]

On October 20th there was a glitch in the matrix. Amazon Web Services (AWS), the giant e-commerce cloud storage, suffered a massive outage that disrupted hundreds of thousands of websites and apps worldwide. Apps like Snapchat, PayPal, Venmo, and smart-home devices went offline. Airlines and gaming platforms also took a hit, and businesses and everyday […]

Across the country, states are quietly pursuing federal waivers under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that would weaken equity protections tied to funding, assessments, and accountability. These changes are being framed as technical adjustments or “flexibility,” but for parents—especially Black, Brown, immigrant, and low-income parents—they represent something far more dangerous: the removal of our […]

The first thing Ken Burns’ The American Revolution makes unmistakably clear is how close we came to losing everything. The second is how impossible it would have been to win without France. The Continental Army bled in the mud, starved in winter camps, and suffered humiliating defeats. Yet the patriots refused to break. Their grievances […]

The South Korean government is in desperate need of diplomatic support from the United States because the country is under constant threat from North Korea. One issue creating resistance to more U.S. support for the government of South Korea is an allegation that President Lee Jae Myung and South Korean prosecutors are not treating the […]

Storytelling is an extremely valuable tool in any industry. A powerful story sways juries, sells a lifestyle, shifts public opinion, makes people feel things. In short, it ignites social and personal change in a way that no data set or factual tidbit can. Some use stories for marketing campaigns, others leverage them by becoming charismatic […]

The most common public speaking advice I’ve encountered frames it as a performance, highlighting elements such as fluidity. This mindset is reinforced online, where guides like Harvard’s recommend omitting any “nervous gestures”. However, the success of Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral race and Obama’s rise as a powerful speaker highlight how compelling oration shouldn’t be defined […]

It was seven in the morning when I got the call. There had been unusual activity on my bank account, and I was under investigation for financial fraud. A man on the line, who claimed to be a representative from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), reassured me that they didn’t suspect I was behind the […]