In 2008, Costa Rica announced to a world drunk on oil that by 2021, 200 years since its independence from Spain, it would become the first country in the world to reach carbon neutrality. Carbon neutrality means the country would remove as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it put into it. In early 2015, Costa Rica made major steps in the direction of carbon neutrality....
A knowledgeable professor told my Pol 251 class with an arrogant certainty that Hillary Clinton would be the 45th President of the United States. His matter-of-factness nauseated my rightwing classmates, and it surely has droned in their ears for the past 12 months. Now the sprint towards November 2016 is underway. Following her 2008 shortfall, Clinton is well...
Few things get under my skin quite like the phrase “more than friends.” While culturally it’s become short hand for romantic involvement, it also reveals something that I find incredibly problematic: the systematic devaluing of friendships. I know that friendship has its place in our cultural understanding, but take a moment to consider the way romantic relationships...
