It’s 7 a.m. and it’s the day of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Tournament at Long Beach State University. After the hour-long drive filled with traffic and getting lost at the university, I reached...

My two teenage sons motivate, frustrate, inspire and infuriate me. They make me smile and make me, to use their lingo, cringe. They have watched my return to school, beginning with them attending my...

On May 1, the United States House of Representatives passed a legislative bill to broaden the definition of antisemitism to include the “targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity.”...

When I told my professor that I had not yet been able to inform the disability office of my deafness and get official accommodations through the school, his response was, “But you don’t need interpreters...

In the early 1980s, a mysterious disease plagued several people, predominantly gay men. This disease was later identified as the virus known as the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, also called AIDS....

America. Home of the brave, land of the free, or something along those lines. Our country, while it has had many great attributions over the years, has suffered many tragedies. With the great volume of...

In the past five years we have seen as Americans how political propaganda can influence the faithful. I am referring to Christians who have their firm beliefs in American fundamentalist views. Religiously,...

We often hear that our country has not been so bitterly divided since the Civil Rights era–maybe even since the Civil War. Americans cannot seem to agree on hot-button issues like abortion regulation,...

U.S. consumer prices rose last month by a bigger-than-expected amount in a surprise development that jolted expectations of the economy and could induce investors to further adjust predictions for interest...

Growing up, I was always taught to be inclusive to everyone, especially my classmates who I would see every day. My godbrother has autism, and being inclusive has always been important to me because I...

Dear grief, You took some of the best parts of me when you took her and didn’t let me say goodbye. It wasn’t a goodbye I would ever be prepared for. She's the reason for a lot of things, like how...

Migrant children face discrimination in legal services Migrant children who are left unaccompanied to represent themselves in court are often without an attorney and health care. When they are located...