All I Want for Christmas: These Sustainable Goals for America’s Fragile State

December 18, 2018 on Featured, Op-eds, Politics by Trisha De Borchgrave

All I Want for Christmas: These Sustainable Goals for America’s Fragile State

December 18, 2018 on Featured, Op-eds, Politics by Trisha De Borchgrave

Confronting America’s deeper issues means looking at it through its fragility, rather than the superpower status it cultivates.

America: A Land of Violence, Doomed to Repeat

November 9, 2018 on Current Affairs, Featured, Residents by Andrew Wicks

Again, extreme violence has punctured the American landscape. But expecting change illustrates a complete ignorance of history. It repeats, because America allows it to.

Reflections on Sacha Baron Cohen’s Broken Mirror Held Up to America

August 14, 2018 on Entertainment, Featured, Satire, Society by Jordan King Lacroix

Sacha Baron Cohen’s undressing of modern America has gone viral, but all that glitters is not gold. Looking back on the first episode of Who Is America?

I Just Can’t Anymore

July 5, 2018 on Current Affairs, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by John S. Blake

John S. Blake reflects on this Fourth of July and reviews the current state of affairs and questions our definition of what it means to be independent and American.

School’s In: Targeting Toxic Masculinity After the Texas School Shooting

May 21, 2018 on Current Affairs, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by Andrew Wicks

With the Texas school shooting motivated by masculinity’s inability to process rejection, the challenge is not necessarily in taking the gun out of their hands but removing the thought from their minds.

The Mountains Are Calling

April 18, 2018 on Featured, My take on ..., Residents by Nikki Martin

Why Americans need to stand our ground and get our hands dirty for public lands.

Yes, Donald Trump, This Is Brexit

November 19, 2016 on Featured, Op-eds, Politics by Trisha De Borchgrave

The winning vote for a Donald Trump Presidency has seen cries that democracy has failed and strong rejection from those opposed. It seems that nothing was learned from Brexit, right?

Congratulations, America: You Wanted Trump, You Got Him

November 9, 2016 on Featured, My take on ..., Politics, Residents by Greg Gerding

Editor-in-Chief, Greg Gerding, weighs in on the 2016 presidential election results while looking back on the one-year anniversary of The Big Smoke America. Oh, what a year it’s been.

America in Peril: Trump Poses the Greatest Threat to U.S. International Security

August 16, 2016 on Featured, Op-eds, Politics by Glenn Carle

I learned a terrible truth during my years in the CIA, and especially while working on “enhanced interrogation”: all democratic institutions are only as strong as the culture in which they operate.

Marriage, the Leading Cause of Divorce—Now Startup Funded!

January 23, 2016 on Featured, Lifestyle, Loves and Lives by TBS Anonymous

A new startup promising to pay for you to get married only requires funds be repaid if you get divorced. A lovely sounding concept, this doesn’t entirely make sense …