By Brady Hummel Everyone is born and raised somewhere. Not everyone, however, has the ability to return back to that place or that image of home. A sense of place, a grounding of roots in a culture and an upbringing, is an important foundation upon which a person’s life can…

They aren’t protesters, they kept saying; they’re water protectors. Mni wiconi, water is life, was the call-to-arms for the movement against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a contentious pipeline project that was rerouted from the almost entirely white population in Bismarck through the sacred and treaty-endowed lands…

Thanks to the 2016 election, I finally felt something. — 11.9.2016, 01:30 [“Mr. President (Have Pity On the Working Man)” by Randy Newman] I was cemented to my friend’s beer-soaked college couch, eyes glued to the TV, unable to process…

Millennials have been labeled “Generation Opportunity.” Many of us don’t see it, though. — Millennials are the generation of globalization, financial crisis, and big bank bailouts; of Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter; of W. and Obama. We were educated in the standardized testing culture, have seen income and wealth inequality balloon in our society, and have been at the forefront of the…

An aspiring journalist’s lingering existential crisis while gaping at the looming “real world” — Needless to say, I’m freaking out about getting a job. I have seven months left in school and six on the other side before I need to start feeding the monkey on my back [read: paying off my student loans]. There’s so much pressure, an expectation to get a good…

One thing I’ve learned through the past three years of being at a liberal arts college and being in a community that pushes critical thinking is to embrace and cultivate a healthy level of skepticism. We’re born with an overwhelming sense of wonder, of imagination, of curiosity towards the world…

Maybe this was the only way a woman could finally break the ultimate glass ceiling. — This is something that I’ve been thinking about since the Democrats officially nominated Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first woman to ever achieve top billing on a major party ticket in American history. So, obviously, that’s a huge win for women and for feminism more broadly, right? Just like how President…

Words are protected, but they can still be dangerous. — Throughout the 2016 election, “political correctness” has been brought into public discourse again and again, taking center stage throughout the Republican primaries as evidence for America’s supposed move away from greatness. It was the real enemy at which the most hateful vitriol was directed during the GOP’s four days in…

Shouting at each other may seem like effective political discourse, but it solves nothing. In the video posted on Facebook by Alex Jones, a right-wing radio host, a group of young supporters of Donald Trump got into a heated argument with a Black Lives Matter activist. The Trump group…