According to a 2011 Harvard study, only 56 percent of students who begin a bachelor’s degree program in America finish within six years. Why do so many college students drop out? A Pew Research...

The big story in America recently has been Ferguson, Mo., where in August, Michael Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson. In the following months, protests and civil unrest have been captured...

The stigma that surrounds mental health disorders is familiar to many Americans — in 2012 there were 9.6 million adults with a serious mental illness in the United States, and that number has been...

This weekend, I finally saw “Interstellar.” It was an enthralling, imaginative and thought-provoking film with eye-popping cinematography and tear-jerking examinations of love and relationships....

“Black people can’t be racist — racism describes a system of disadvantage based on race,” said character Samantha White in “Dear White People,” the smart indie comedy...

Every winter, as Salt Lake’s notorious inversion sets in, blanketing our beautiful valley in a thick, toxic haze, air quality becomes a common topic of conversation. You start to see people wearing...

I don’t mean to alarm you, but finals are only a few weeks away. It’s that final stretch of the semester, and it can be pretty stressful. There are a lot of ways to alleviate stress, but one...

We tend to have selective memories. This may explain why we frequently overlook the injustices faced by American Indians and the role they played in the historic charade known as Thanksgiving. The idea...

Elementary and high school students across the nation recently took to Twitter to express their disgust with the school lunches prepared for them each day. Hundreds posted photos of their grotesque-looking...

It would be overwhelmingly repetitive to denounce Black Friday again this November, since America has clearly not yet lost its obsession with blatant consumerism and has little chance of ever kicking the...