Our daily, scheduled lives are strung together by a series of contracts between friends, strangers and ourselves — contracts that we seem hesitant to honor.
Since last summer, calls to mobilize the 99 percent have been heard from Wall Street to the Vatican, amassing one of the greatest peaceful global demonstrations in history.
What good have you done today?
The limits of what constitutes a racist act are too liberally defined today. With a heightened sensitivity to racial inequality, we’ve become overzealous when classifying things as racist.
I often hear conversations between two people seemingly so consumed by their own lives that they fail to be concerned with anything beyond themselves. And, all too often, I’m one of them.
With the onslaught of cellphone tapping, domestically flying drones and Internet browsers that remember every website we've ever visited, it's fair to say that our liberties are being undermined.
A few weeks ago, a mobile exhibition called "America's Farmers" visited UF and parked on the North Lawn. With a mission to celebrate American family farmers, the exhibition offered a pamphlet, a short tour and a video of the lives of these rural Americans.
Seventy-four Egyptians were killed during a soccer match in Cairo on Feb. 1
When we watch sports, our brains process the information as if we are actually participating. We get the mental satisfaction of outmaneuvering Lionel Messi and tackling Reggie Bush, without actually having to do so.
We readily scorn humanitarian crises in hindsight, but we have a selfish habit of ignoring those that persist in the present.
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