People say we’re in a golden age of television. And we are, thanks to “Breaking Bad.” The show is a perfect example of how to make quality television. “All bad things must come to an end,” the showrunners of “Breaking Bad” teased fans before the finale. The only bad thing about “Breaking Bad” is its...
This summer, I bought a cup of Dormans coffee from Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. And now, the coffee shop is littered with shrapnel, bullet casings, and abandoned shopping carts. The mall is located minutes from the nonprofit I worked at this summer and the house I lived in when I was 15. To get to the...
The leaves were reluctant to change this year. I suppose I shouldn’t complain since my house chore is to rake them, and I haven’t had to worry about that much as of yet. But there’s something crisp and clean and academic about the reds and oranges that light up campus this time of year. It...
On Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. the United States Federal government shut down. The country woke up and panicked because the National Park System and the panda cam at the National Zoo had closed. Rep. Nancy Pelosi almost cried on the House floor when envisioning all the House staffers who would supposedly go hungry on Wednesday....
We endorsed candidates for homecoming king and queen last week. We expected our entrance into the fiercely partisan arena of homecoming politics might be controversial in some way, but not exactly in the ways it turned out to be. So for this issue’s Weekly, we’re going to try and set some things straight about what...