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Critical. Subversive. Irrepressible.

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Critical. Subversive. Irrepressible.

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Photo Essay: THE Meridian Hill Park Drum Circle

Chris Lewis April 16, 2016

Every Sunday afternoon during spring and summer, there's a place in the city where people get together to play drums and dance.

Sioux Natives buy back Sacred Land:
Lakota Stake Their Claim on the Earth

Sioux Natives buy back Sacred Land: Lakota Stake Their Claim on the Earth

Pamela Huber April 16, 2016

Nestled in the southwest corner of South Dakota, the Black Hills rise out of the Great Plains like a new forest growing from its burnt ancestor.

AWOL Newswire Fall 2012

Chris Young April 16, 2016

TWENTY PETAFLOP TENNESSEE TITAN 

On October 29, the US Department of Energy unveiled Titan, a 20-petaflop supercomputer that it hopes will claim the title of fastest in the world.

Local Activists Battle Sex Trafficking Stopping Slavery in the Nation's Capital

Rachel Lomot April 16, 2016

It’s 1 a.m. She’s been standing on the corner for four hours.

She cannot go home.  She cannot call the police.  She cannot tell her friends.

LOCAL ACTIVISTS Battle Sex Trafficking Stopping Slavery in the Nation's Capital

Rachel Lomot April 16, 2016

It’s 1 a.m. She’s been standing on the corner for four hours.

She cannot go home.  She cannot call the police.  She cannot tell her friends.

The Experience of Burmese Immigrants
Out of Asia Into the District

The Experience of Burmese Immigrants Out of Asia Into the District

Emily Edwards April 16, 2016

“My last memory of my childhood was being in my house in Burma... we used to practice how to gather each other and go into a tunnel under the house.

AU Student Experiences Homelessness
Unhousing an Undergrad

AU Student Experiences Homelessness Unhousing an Undergrad

Jess Anderson April 16, 2016

There are a lot of things on my bucket list: skydiving, traveling, trying all 75 milkshake flavors at Z-Burger.

Greetings from Abroad

Zac Deibel April 15, 2016

Just got back from study abroad? Struggling to express your transcendental experience with words?

"Museum City's" Less Popular Attractions A Survey of Non-Smithsonian Sites

Ean Marshall April 15, 2016

The Smithsonian Institution is the standard to which all museums are set. The dinosaurs in the Natural History Museum, the steam engines in the National Museum of History, the Spirit of St.

AWOL Newswire March 2012

Chris Young April 15, 2016

ACTIVITY BEATS ANXIETY

A recent study in the Psychosomatic Medicine Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine, followed participants for 20 years in an attempt to discover if physical activity had an effect on young adults with financial stress’s proclivity towards developing “impaired fasting glucose” (a pre-diabetic stage). They discovered that there was in fact a positive correlation.

Professor Profile: Sally Shelton-Colby

Professor Profile: Sally Shelton-Colby

Ashley Dejean April 15, 2016

Sally Shelton-Colby, former diplomat, has worked all over the world—literally.

Photo Essay: Looking at Life in Lhasa

In Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, the Potala Palace stands as a monument to Tibetan Buddhist practices, despite the current Chinese occupation and suppression of traditional religion and culture.

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