In the past month, a question piqued the interest of news anchors and late night talk show hosts: Did Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State, call the President a “fucking moron”? Tillerson,...

Last month, the Trump administration revised an Obama-era mandate requiring employers to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees, creating exemptions for employers who object to contraception...

Last week, lawmakers released samples of more than 3,000 Facebook ads purchased by Russian operatives during the 2016 presidential election, shedding new light on the breadth of Moscow’s effort to...

My fellow columnist Elizabeth Braaten wrote several weeks ago that as college students, we’re good at making a scene about issues we care about. We’re passionate and interested in social justice,...

The hidden costs of college are always the ones that hurt the most. As a freshman, I knew what I was getting into with tuition, housing and even textbooks, but UT’s litany of extraneous costs caught...

Rent-to-own companies offer products that customers can pay small rent payments for with the intention of eventually buying it. The appearance of low prices draws consumers in by convincing them that they’re...

On Friday, Disney announced that Beyonce and Donald Glover will be starring in the 2019 live-action Lion King movie. This is a step toward diversity on the big screen, but it was a missed opportunity to...

Amazon has been holding a widely publicized search for the city that will be their second seat of power — their HQ2 — and a recent Moody’s Analytics study suggests they’ll choose...

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by a campus evangelist. Many Christians agree that suited men shouting on Guadalupe is uncalled for, but groups approaching strangers on...

Bite your tongue enough, and it will swell. Keep biting it, and it will keep swelling. Eventually, you’ll find that your bloated tongue impedes speaking. Either you’ll stop speaking, or you’ll...

This week, I’ve been treated to multiple phone calls, most sponsored by the Save East Austin Schools Political Action Committee urging me to vote against the AISD 2017 Bond Proposal.  They claim...

Women in the Workplace’s 2017 report found women are underrepresented at every rung of the corporate ladder. The numbers only decreased on the climb toward the jobs with corner offices and leadership...