Browsing and buying has become more a pastime than an act of necessity over the past decade. People no longer hit the stores solely because they “need” something; instead, they wander racks aimlessly, and end up with a ca...
In August of this year, Tumblr was bought at 0.27% of its 2017 value: only $3 million compared to once estimated $1.1 billion.
Founded in 2007 by David Karp, Tumblr is a platform where millions of users once found...
Since 2016, the United Kingdom has been a headliner for its push to leave the European Union (EU), an economic and political union among 28 countries that allows free trade and travel across borders. The process, coined Brexit, was...
On November 8, 2018, early in the morning in California, a fire started under power transmission lines. Just over ten minutes later, the fire already sprawled across ten acres. Authorities did their best to combat the rapidl...
Once again, scandal rocks the Donald Trump presidency. Recently, the White House released the rough transcript of a phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. To some, this news was unsurpri...
For four months now, protests peaceful and violent have wracked Hong Kong in reaction to the Chinese government’s extradition bill. The first instance was a peaceful march on June 9th rejecting the bill. But just three days l...
In 1996, Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin made its debut in the market with a bold marketing claim: The painkiller provides “smooth and sustained pain control all day and all night.” Racking in $31 billion, OxyContin quickly became a b...
On October 1st, federal judge Allison D. Burroughs of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that Harvard University does not intentionally discriminate against Asian-American applicants, clea...
Venezuela has had its fair share of problems over the past few years: hyperinflation, poverty, and corruption, to name a few. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has done quite a bit in an effort to solve these problems. Most n...
From college students, to Hollywood actors, to political figures such as former
president Barack Obama, many found the idea of a Trump presidency to be ludicrous
and expressed no doubt that the former Senator of New Yor...
The summit between the United States and North Korea on February 27-28, 2019 in Vietnam had the potential for a historic compromise about denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, but the convention dispersed unexpectedly early wi...
