I was 18 years old when I first saw Trainspotting, the film based on Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel of the same name. At that point in my life I was utterly clueless about the world of heroin addiction in Edinburgh, Scotland, and any interest I had was lost in the struggle to understand what the characters in [...]
By now, anyone who follows politics has heard the “47 percent” gaffe of Mexican-American presidential candidate Willard M. Romney. Posted Monday afternoon by David Corn of Mother Jones, the story features Romney saying some shockingly stupid things. But one thing, one beautiful, shiny, crystalline phrase, so overwhelmed the stupid found elsewhere in the video that [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
