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  • Voting Rights in 2025: The Battle Isn’t Over Just Because the Marches Are Quieter

    Somewhere between the waving flags and the celebratory “I Voted” selfies, we like to pretend that the fight for voting rights is something we’ve already won. We picture black-and-white footage of marches in Selma, speeches by civil rights leaders, and think the battle was wrapped up decades ago in a neat little legislative bow called

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  • Food Myths Debunked: What’s Really Healthy and What’s Not

    Let’s get one thing straight: Nutrition advice is a minefield. One minute, eggs are the devil’s cholesterol bombs; the next, they’re the MVPs of your breakfast lineup. Carbs were your best friend in 1998 and became public enemy number one by 2004. Don’t even get me started on the drama surrounding coffee. (Is it aging

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  • Why Awards Shows Are My Favorite Form of Performance Art (And Occasional Train Wreck)

    There’s something oddly comforting about the chaos of an awards show. Maybe it’s the glittering gowns that look like someone lost a bet with a glue gun. Maybe it’s the presenters who butcher the teleprompter like it insulted their mother. Or maybe it’s just the promise that something will go off the rails and Twitter

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  • How Intersectionality Shapes Our Understanding of Inequality

    What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Shows Up in the Real World Let’s talk about a word that’s been tossed around like it’s a trendy accessory on the intellectual runway but rarely given the depth it deserves: intersectionality. You’ve probably heard it in think pieces, on activist panels, maybe even from that

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  • Bipartisanship Is Dead — And That’s Okay

    Let’s just rip the Band-Aid off: bipartisanship is dead. And you know what? Maybe it deserves to be. For years, we’ve been spoon-fed this myth that the highest virtue in American politics is finding the middle ground. That if we all just held hands across the aisle and sang kumbaya, we could fix everything from

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  • Scream and the Death (and Rebirth) of the Slasher: How One Film Revived a Genre on Life Support

    When Scream slashed its way into theaters in December 1996, the horror genre was a bloated corpse of its former self. Slashers, once revolutionary in the late ’70s and early ’80s, had been reduced to formulaic gore-fests. The tropes were tired, the killers predictable, and the final girls were either virginal stereotypes or so thinly

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  • Jurassic Park and the Dino-Sized Legacy of Modern BlockbustersA journey through the highs, lows, and genetically engineered chaos of the franchise that roared into history

    There are two kinds of people in this world: those who saw Jurassic Park in theaters in 1993 and left forever changed, and those who are lying. I was 9 years old the first time I saw a T. rex stomp its way across the screen, rip through a wire fence, and remind us all

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  • The Power of Grassroots Organizing in Political Change

    You ever notice how the loudest voices in politics don’t always come from podiums, boardrooms, or blue-check Twitter accounts? Sometimes, they come from the folding chairs in a church basement. Or the back of a taco truck. Or a text thread of five pissed-off moms who’ve had enough of book bans and bad school lunches.

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  • How Social Justice Movements Are Changing Corporate Culture

    I remember a time when diversity training at work meant watching a dusty VHS of people in ill-fitting suits role-playing awkward scenarios while someone in HR handed out stale cookies. Now, we’ve got rainbow logos every June, companies tweeting support for causes, and LinkedIn profiles full of DEI titles that didn’t even exist ten years

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  • Homemade Sauces That Transform Any Dish

    Let’s be honest—most meals are made or murdered by what you put on top of them. A dry chicken breast? Sad. A dry chicken breast with a silky lemon butter sauce? Iconic. The same goes for vegetables, pastas, rice, fish, tofu, and basically anything that’s not already drowning in something creamy, spicy, herby, or tangy.

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