“Black people can’t be racist — racism describes a system of disadvantage based on race,” said character Samantha White in “Dear White People,” the smart indie comedy...

Every winter, as Salt Lake’s notorious inversion sets in, blanketing our beautiful valley in a thick, toxic haze, air quality becomes a common topic of conversation. You start to see people wearing...

I don’t mean to alarm you, but finals are only a few weeks away. It’s that final stretch of the semester, and it can be pretty stressful. There are a lot of ways to alleviate stress, but one...

We tend to have selective memories. This may explain why we frequently overlook the injustices faced by American Indians and the role they played in the historic charade known as Thanksgiving. The idea...

Elementary and high school students across the nation recently took to Twitter to express their disgust with the school lunches prepared for them each day. Hundreds posted photos of their grotesque-looking...

It would be overwhelmingly repetitive to denounce Black Friday again this November, since America has clearly not yet lost its obsession with blatant consumerism and has little chance of ever kicking the...

Wanna get high? Lend a hand! Brain-imaging experiments conducted by the Corporation for National and Community Service in 2007 revealed that the act of donating time and money stimulates pleasure centers...