Standing on the National Mall in the midst of President Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony, it’s no wonder the crowd’s excitement was visible.

On a normal Friday night, Monica Sindwani is getting ready with her friends for another night at Lotus Lounge, a club near Dupont Circle. The four girls are listening to music and making cocktails before they take the Red Line Metro out for a night of dancing. Boys are commonly absent from this part of [...]

The progressive community took a loss this past January with the death of historian Howard Zinn — college professor, World War II bombardier, and author of the renowned “A People’s History of the United States.”

Two and a half years ago, I set out on campus with a handful of fliers — none sporting the Student Activities approval stamp — and tacked them around Ward, MGC, and the library. The fliers decried both my eagerness and desperation: “Interested in Progressive Politics? Writing? Photography? Design? Come brainstorm with me!” These early [...]

Like many college campuses, AU hosts a predominately female student body. Though the gender breakdown is curiously absent from the university’s Web site, the Princeton Review reports AU to be 61.5 percent female, and according to a recent Times piece, the figure is in line with the national average: as of 2000, 57 pecent of [...]

The “obelus.” That short horizontal line and the two dots it separates introduced division to us as just another mathematical function early in our childhood. As we grew older, we began to see division didn’t solely occur between numbers. It parted families and carved up cities; it dissected countries into classes and political factions; it [...]

As a first generation college student from a working-class family in Northeastern Pennsylvania, attending a private university has given me a sense of Otherness.
Coming to AU, I had never traveled out of the Mid-Atlantic, the latest issues of the New Yorker or Harper’s never graced my family’s coffee table, and I thought every working person [...]

In the DC metro area, 24 percent of adults are obese and 19 percent are below the poverty line. This is no coincidence.
Poverty and obesity sometimes occur simultaneously—in the same city, neighborhood, or even household. Lower-class families are particularly susceptible to obesity because of the added risk factors connected with poverty, according to the Food [...]

On Sept. 12, 2009, our city was under attack. Crowds of “Tea Party Patriots” clad in conspicuously patriotic clothing, descended upon Washington brandishing picket signs and lawn chairs. One sign read “We came unarmed: THIS time.”
While the irony of a “patriot” threatening to overthrow his government may elicit a chuckle in some, gestures like these [...]

It costs $47,386 to attend AU this year, a six percent increase from last year’s tuition. With a tuition hike during the recession, many students struggling to finance their education are caught in a bind.
This figure, noted on AU’s Web site includes tuition at $34,456; room at $8,630; and board at $4,300. With the cost [...]