"Like books and black lives, albums still matter." Prince spoke these words as he introduced the Album of the Year award at this year's Grammys. For a show that typically thrives on a healthy amount of scandal, th...
For many people, especially young adults and teens, owning the newest gadget is the embodiment of cool. The newest phone is cool, the newest tablet is cool , the newest train is cool....train? Recently, transi...
Welcome one and all to today's game of Geopolitical UltraChess! For a special treat, this round will be played in the world's newest nation, South Sudan. Let's take a look: THE BOARD: South Sudan is an Afri...
When you think of that old cliche "shop-till-you-drop", you probably picture upper-middle class Americans racing around shopping malls and outlet centers. The numbers certainly support that picture... in 2013 the average A...
Over the past several months, the brutality of the Islamic State of Iraq & al-Sham (ISIS) has become all too well-known to the outside world. Through a series of publicly proclaimed executions and acts of cruelty, the group ...
How did Twilight fan-fiction become one of the most popular novels in the world? Recently, that 50 Shades novel took it to the big screen and did extremely well. $81.7 million well in the first weekend.&nbs...
Its been a year of major shakeups for late-night comedy. Jimmy Fallon inherited The Tonight Show from Jay Leno. John Oliver opened a new sociopolitical-issues-explainer-show-with-jokes on HBO which is already m...
"Hmm... I've never seen symptoms like this before. Let me just post a pic to my app and I'll have a diagnosis for you in 24 hours." Well... after all that schooling, even the medical professionals can still be stumped from ...
Republicans attempt to use the power of the purse to defund an Obama achievement. Democrats insist on a clean spending bill. A gridlocked Congress races toward a government shutdown. Sound familiar ? A year ago, the government s...
Media attention in the West on Ebola slowed down over the past few months, but the battle against the disease is still being waged daily in West Africa. A collaboration between OkayAfrica and Ebola Deeply brings ...
