Everybody knows that “one” person. You know exactly whom I’m talking about. The one that’s always on their phone when you’re hanging out, too busy staring into the dark reflection of their device to even engage in some friendly banter. The one that cares more about Instagramming their food than […]

For better or for worse, unless you have your castle in the middle of the woods somewhere, you probably have to live next to other people. In America, the idea of a “neighborhood” was codified in the post-war economic boom. People born decades after the era know the imagery: white […]

While a college education was seen as a luxury for Americans just decades ago, it has become more or less a standard to spend at least a couple of semesters at a university today. As you can imagine, this means that students graduating from high school have some pretty life-altering […]

Summer vacation is a tradition honored just about everywhere in the world, and most readers will agree that we’re all the better for it. Even the most diligent among us understand that the value of taking our eyes off the books for a couple of months, which gives us time […]

College football is one of, if not the definitive event of American athletics. Like the National Football League, the entire world is familiar with at this point; college football features bitter rivalries between teams, intense gameplay, and of course — fans that planned their whole day around watching a game. […]

Human beings have kept the company of animals since the dawn of civilization. After transitioning away from the primitive hunter-gatherer lifestyle, humans have employed beasts of burden to help them with just about everything: tilling fields for crops, laboring heavy cargo, and even assisting with the hunting of other animals. […]