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  • I Love Women’s Soccer, But Not The USWNT

    On July 7th, the U.S. Women’s National Team, also known as the USWNT by their adoring fans, won the Women’s World Cup. They came home to a parade in New York City, appearances on late night shows, and endless sponsorship deals Thousands welcomed them and flooded social media with calls for equal pay for the…

    Growth, National

  • Bring Back The Trains

    I had the New York City subway map memorized by the time I was four years old. I remember how I loved the spaghetti-like interconnections that the brightly colored lines made and how I would pore over my dad’s collections of old maps for hours and hours. I remember riding with my mom to the…

    2018, Memory, National

  • The Promise of Better Sex Ed

    “I want you to look at these vaginas so that you know that vaginas can look one hundred different normal ways, and so that you don’t believe people when they tell you that vaginal reconstruction surgery can fix you.” Twenty-five tired and now stunned faces looked back at our teacher, having difficulty processing her words…

    2018, Bodies, Feminism, Social Justice

  • Religious Minorities in Some of America’s Largest Cities

    Despite the First Amendment’s role in the separation of church and state, the United States is far from a secular nation. God is invoked in our Pledge of Allegiance, dollar bills, and in nearly every inaugural address since James Monroe’s in 1817. Biblical references in these inaugural speeches, during elections, and following national tragedies suggest…

    2018, Cities, Featured, Religion, St. Louis

  • A Story of Subways and MetroLinks

    I followed my mother urgently onto the platform, through the crowds of fast-moving stiletto heels, backpacks, strollers, briefcases and scrubs that were always running late. I concentrated on staying close behind while simultaneously taking attentive mental photographs of my surroundings: right turn off the train, to the stairs labeled with an “uptown” sign, turn right…

    2017, Constructions, Our Campus, Social Justice, St. Louis, Wash U, Wash U & St. Louis

  • Bill de Who?

      BY CHARLIE THAU New York City’s leading mayoral candidate is a 6’5” Italian and championed as a liberal lion. Sound a little different from Bloomberg? On September 10, former Public Advocate Bill de Blasio emerged victorious in New York City’s Democratic primary, with 40.2 percent of the vote. He is also heavily favored in…

    National