Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska” is filled with expansive, iconic Midwestern scenery. The entire film is in black and white, which gives the sweeping landscape a barren and lifeless hue like...

Student activism has a rich and storied history at many U.S. colleges and universities. From marching against the Vietnam War to advocating for lower tuition, protest movements started by students play...

If Aaron Sorkin produced the news, America would be a better country. That’s the message presented by the first season of HBO’s “The Newsroom,” a series in which anchor Will McAvoy...

  In present day America, we tend to categorize problems in one of two ways: either it’s a problem the state should take care of, or it should be up to the individual to solve (or avoid) it...

“Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday he would resign Feb. 28, the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years” read an article published by the Associated Press early Feb. 11. Few other institutions...

  President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address gave the pundits what they wanted; a passionate, unapologetic, philosophical argument for progressivism in the 21st century that would reenergize...

Until the 112th Congress came to Washington, lawmakers raised the federal debt limit without much attention from their constituents or the media. Neither major party considered delaying the vote until...

Since the end of the Bush era, conservatives have been clamoring to redefine the ideological soul of the Republican Party. By most accounts, the hawkish, neo-conservatism of the Bush Administration had...