Corporatocracy: Net Neutrality and Corporate America’s Crusade Against Free Speech
Benjamin Brumley, Opinion Section Editor
March 8, 2018
Filed under Global: So What?, Opinion
Recent decisions surrounding net neutrality have sent the public into a state of panic, some of it exaggerated, but ultimately not without reason. Net neutrality allows the internet to be an open marketplace of ideas over which internet service providers (ISPs) like Verizon or Time Warner have little cont...
Pop Culture as 21st Century News
November 9, 2016
Filed under Global: So What?
With every era there are positives and negatives: it balances humanity. One of those is most definitely the political climate of the world. At this time, the world seems to be on the verge of another world war. The civil war in Syria seems to be worsening every day with no resolve seeming imminent. Te...
Englewood Understands
March 19, 2015
Filed under Global: So What?, Opinion
In the past months, the news has been painted with various police brutality cases against black Americans. In Ferguson, Missouri, Michael Brown, a black eighteen year old, was gunned down in the streets by police officer Darren Wilson. Charged were dropped and the man was not indicted by a grand jury,...
Understandable Fear Spawns Unjustified Ignorance: ISIS Further Stigmatizes Muslim Americans
October 9, 2014
Filed under Global: So What?, Opinion, Showcase
The actions of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS have been a trending topic amongst most major media outlets. Though the Islamic extremist group has existed since as early as 2003, its actions have severely intensified upon its acquisition of land in western Iraq. The self-proclaimed cali...