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Published: June 21, 2022 by Angelo Young
This year, Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and record producer Justin Timberlake agreed to sell his music catalog to Hipgnosis Song Management, […]
Published: May 24, 2022 by Angelo Young
The United States is mostly a vast, public transportation desert, especially compared to other developed European or Asian countries. Buses, […]
Published: April 19, 2022 by Angelo Young
There was a time three decades ago when some of America’s cities were choked by smog. Clean air rules have […]
Published: March 28, 2022 by Angelo Young
What makes the people of a country unhappy? Widespread exposure to warfare, famine, poverty, or plague are obvious answers, but […]
Published: March 26, 2022 by Angelo Young
The Declaration of Independence triumphantly declares the “pursuit of happiness” as an inalienable right. But what does happiness mean to […]
Published: March 24, 2022 by Angelo Young
Progress has been made to improve the civil rights of LGBTQ Americans in recent years, most notably in 14 states […]
Published: March 5, 2022 by Angelo Young
Despite the rise of cyber attacks involving things like phishing, denial of service, and malware, people often still create passwords […]
Published: March 4, 2022 by Angelo Young
As most people who commute by car know, rush hour is often anything but speedy. The times of the day […]
Published: February 2, 2022 by Angelo Young
City life has its advantages, from more choices in dining and entertainment to more job opportunities, better public transportation, and […]
Published: December 30, 2021 by Angelo Young
Published: December 4, 2021 by Angelo Young
A lot was going on in 1969, from the moon landing to the Manson murders to the Woodstock music festival […]
Published: November 28, 2021 by Angelo Young
Published: November 25, 2021 by Angelo Young
Despite being associated with high caloric consumption, as well high intake of fat and sodium, fast food has long been […]
Published: November 8, 2021 by Angelo Young
Published: November 1, 2021 by Angelo Young
Despite a nationwide decline in smoking in recent years and an increasing emphasis on early detection, cancer in its various […]
Published: September 18, 2021 by Angelo Young
The 16th Summer Paralympics — officially the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games — wrapped up recently in the Japanese capital with […]
Published: August 18, 2021 by Angelo Young
Once upon a time, the company then known as Walt Disney Productions (now the Walt Disney Company) was on the […]
Published: August 4, 2021 by Angelo Young
The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle were big fans of city-states, by definition modest in size — like their […]
Published: August 3, 2021 by Angelo Young
Tip O’Neill once said “all politics is local.” Though the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to […]
Published: July 29, 2021 by Angelo Young
Published: May 18, 2021 by Angelo Young
In the 1967 coming-of-age rom-com “The Graduate,” a family friend tells recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock (played by a young […]
Published: May 8, 2021 by Angelo Young
Higher education as we know it today dates back to Medieval Europe — when the first universities were established. Today, […]
Published: August 30, 2020 by Angelo Young and John Harrington
Over the past 100 years, we’ve witnessed some of the most profound changes in human history. Between a pandemic, wars, […]