One of the reasons why I love this time of year is watching every music elitist out there sum up the best of 2011 with their own appraisal of new music that graced the year. As I was perusing the top countdowns (from Pitchfork to MTV), I noticed one disturbing trend: Tyler, the Creator in [...]

The draws to American University are pretty self-explanatory. The location to the city offers opportunities as different as politics and nightlife. Top-notch programs in Political Science and International Relations foster the next generation of leaders. And the best part? Humanities-crazed students can avoid math and science programs with ease. Even the campus itself, enclosed by [...]

There has been a lot of excitement around the “Occupy” movement in the last two months. With slogans such as “we are the 99%”, the “Occupy” movement has attracted a wide range of people to its cause, from union members to the elderly, moderates to radicals and unemployed people and students. Students have especially found [...]

Miss Representation, a documentary on the media’s misrepresentation of women, came to AU on Thursday as part of the React to Film College Action Network. Written, directed and produced by actress and activist Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film explores how the exploitation of women in mainstream media directly contributes to the under-representation of women in [...]

Bits of journalism and current events collected by AWOL editors. New York Magazine — “The Kids Are Actually Sort of Alright”: Noreen Malone on how the twentysomethings are making do in the recession of their generation. SONG OF THE DAY courtesy of the Occupy Wall Street drummers — and how their beats may be the [...]

We can no longer argue the fact that the Occupy Wall Street movement has arrived.  This past weekend marked its largest efforts yet, not only with a massive march to Times Squares but also with global protests echoing the message first voiced at Zuccotti Park. It seems that the nation agrees with that message against [...]

Protesters have occupied Zuccotti Park in New York City since September 17th.  This protest, Occupy Wall Street, has since spread across the United States: from Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago to our own Washington, DC. It started in 2010, when Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission struck down campaign finance laws. It has since allowed [...]

The president’s message was simple enough, but just to make sure that it reached the 535 members of Congress sitting before him he repeated it more than seventeen times: his bumper-sticker ready message, “Pass this bill now.” That bill was the American Jobs Act, the president’s $447 billion stimulative response to anemic job growth that [...]

I first heard about Troy Davis three years ago as a freshman in Professor Richard Stack’s understanding media class, and I will admit that I naively believed for a long time that the Georgia death row inmate would one day be free. Surely the American justice system could not possibly allow the execution of a [...]

For the US, the Great Recession was an economic crisis brought about by the manipulative excesses of banks and big business that had an economic domino effect. That’s why in 2009, with the stock market nose diving at an unprecedented rate, the housing market crashing and absolutely massive job cuts, the stimulus bill was passed [...]