I enjoy walking around Whole Foods because it makes me progressive. I’m not talking about the neo-hippie, trash bag wearing wannabe crowd; I mean the real live stick-it-to-the-man type who doesn’t conform to middle-class fashion trends.

Chris Palmer teaches Environmental Filmmaking at American University. Born in Hong Kong and raised in London, Palmer came to the United States and joined American's University's staff in 2004.

Suicide haunts jails across our country. Unfortunately, the Central Detention Facility, DC’s city jail, is no exception to this trend.

    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.

Zoé Orfanos once taught a convicted murderer how to use Google. She was volunteering with Offender and Restoration, a nonprofit in Arlington, Virginia.

As a resident of the United States, you have Inter-American rights. They are defined by the Charter of the Organization of American States and the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man.

It is late March in Washington, already a day into the world’s most popular tree blossom festival, and yet winter, like a sozzled old man in a bar, is dragging its feet out the door.

Our lives run on food. Food nourishes us, it comforts us and it can make us feel happy and guilty simultaneously.

In 2012, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s dignified image was tarnished 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.

Following the State of the Union, Twitter was cluttered with #madmen. But 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,” President Obama said in his speech.

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The AU Beekeeping Society is excited to install new bees in their apiary this spring after such a harsh winter.

DC is not generally considered an “innovative” city. Despite the young, ambitious would-be movers and shakers in the District’s universities and internship programs, it is known as stodgy and bureaucratic.

The landscape is all gently rolling, snow-covered hills dotted with farms and cattle. It looks bleak after the latest winter storm, with a backdrop of skeleton trees and pale skies.