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To truly evaluate your impact on the environment, you have to go way beyond recycle bins and energy bills.
This year, high school juniors and seniors will buy a $100 calculator that's older than they are. You remember the TI-83: the brick-sized graphing machine you likely covered in stickers and used ...
A few dozen people crowd the platter-filled tables at Komkommertijd, a vegan buffet on the outskirts of the spired, medieval city-center of Ghent, Belgium. It’s a Thursday evening but the ...
"We're gathered to celebrate Women's History Month, but I don't celebrate Women's History Month," announced writer Mona Charen, one of the panelists at the Heritage Foundation's recent panel on ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate groups, called the KKK "the most infamous — and oldest — of American hate groups." The KKK's website states that the organization's ...
Get this: If you’ve spent some time in jail, you are much more likely to vote Democrat, according to a new study published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ...
Mic spoke to the Rev. Traci Blackmon about when pro-life arguments turn hypocritical and the danger of “theologizing our politics," in advance of the Supreme Court's expected 'Roe v. Wade' ruling.
Long before Roland Emmerich's highly anticipated Stonewall was screened for journalists and others, LGBT activists of color expressed concerns that the film was too white. They had plenty of ...
Shana Blackwell quit her job at Walmart in a blaze of glory. Her post — and others like it — are changing the way we protest.
Imagine you are chained with your hands between your legs, crouching. You're isolated in a small, dark room with earphones you can't take off. Queen's "We Are the Champions" has been playing on ...
In 2001, the Portuguese government did something that the United States would find entirely alien. After many years of waging a fierce war on drugs, it decided to flip its strategy entirely: It ...
Imagine living without a first language. That’s the case for many deaf children in the United States who suffer from “language deprivation,” a condition that could affect them for life. It ...