Following President Obama's State of the Union Address, Twitter was cluttered with #madmen. It wasn’t about Don Draper or Madison Avenue, but rather about progress in regard to women’s rights and wages.
“You know, today, women make up about half our workforce, but they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns,” Obama said in his speech.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s dignified image was tarnished in 2012 when they shamed a student during a judicial hearing.
Landin Gambill, who reported that her ex-boyfriend raped her, was met with degrading and accusatory questions during the ensuing honor court hearing.
The Beeinformed Partnership, sponsored by the USDA and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, reported that, on average, US Beekeepers lost 45.1 percent of their
colonies this past winter.
Zoé Orfanos once taught a convicted murderer how to use Google. She was volunteering with Offender and Restoration, a nonprofit in Arlington, Virginia.
Suicide haunts jails across our country. Unfortunately, the Central Detention Facility, DC’s city jail, is no exception.
More than half of all prison and jail inmates in the United States have mental health problems, according to a 2006 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Another BJS report that year found that suicide caused 32.3 percent of deaths in local jails.
According to the DC Department of Corrections, two suicides were committed from 2009 to 2012 at the Central Detention Facility.
It is late March in Washington DC, well into the world’s most pop- ular tree blossom festival; and yet winter, like a sozzled old man in a bar, is dragging its feet out the door.
"Welcome to Night Vale" is changing the way we see, or rather, hear, the Internet in a dynamic podcast which weaves social issues into fantastical storylines.
Is the Federal Aviation Administration restricting American journalists or protecting people? As drones used for photography becomes widespread, there may be good reasons why journalists aren't allowed.
