Imagine the stereotypical popular high schooler. You know, the good looking, often athletic type, that are at the top of the food chain. They're often homecoming or prom royalty. The popular guys get all the popular girls and it's hard to enter that circle if you're on the outside. Have an image yet? Likely chance is that y...

New York comedian Louis C.K. is known for making his listeners’ faces red and eyes watery with laughter, I can say I’m one of them too, be it through his many stand-up bits or his awkwardly hilarious show on FX, Louie.  Behind all the raunchy material and often offensive wordplay is a deeper message. Louis C.K. preach...

Every year every single one of us takes an SOL, an SAT or an AP test (if not all three). The entire year is spent preparing for these tests. It does not matter if you actually understand the material. All that matters is that you can at least look like you understand and can pass a test the the state or College Board made o...

When a kid in Nigeria with the scraps of his brother’s hand me downs on his back does not sell the very last cassava seeds from his family’s garden, he thinks of the empty dinner table haunting him when he gets home. When a girl in Cambodia walks on the streets, she worries that a pimp could suddenly trap her in a life of...