When I was around sixteen years old, I went out shopping for the day with my mum. As we made our way down the bustling high street I noticed a woman who appeared to be flagging us down. It turned out...
As a teenager growing up Texas, so much of my youth was spent trying to fit in. While this is something that most former teenagers can relate to, I was also a Chinese American teenager in a...
A friend of mine took part in a medical cannabis trial to test whether it could help with the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. She was taking the legitimate cannabis in the trial and found that it...
March 15 marked the seventh year of conflict in Syria, resulting in more than five million refugees and many more internally displaced. Many of the Syrians who fled long to return to their homes, but...
My school was pretty strict about its uniform policy. Wearing a coat that wasn’t brown could get you sent home and wearing the wrong coloured socks meant you had to wear someone else’s manky old...
Jonathan Oberlander wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that a Medicare for All healthcare proposal would generate “fierce resistance from conservatives and the business community.”...
In 2016, Shahmir Sanni volunteered with the Vote Leave campaign, which was aiming to convince British voters to leave the European Union. He was unusual amongst his university peers for being a...
In the life of every individual, a certain maturing must eventually take place. We learn that Santa Claus is not real. We come to terms with the fact The Republican Idea Of Personal Responsibility...
The thing about companies like Facebook and Google is that data gathering is a feature, not a bug. It’s how they make their living – by offering highly targeted advertising options based on the...
Filipino-Americans have often been called the “invisible minority”. Despite being the second largest Asian-American community in America – and the first Asians to come to America in 1587 –...
