John Virgil Aton 
Andrew Kravatz 
Jamila Urena 
Ellie Nam 
How One Pedophile Brought Unity to Thanksgiving After 399 Years
Mark Lugas Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday, and it is the foundational story of this country. When the pilgrims…
Sexism Kills: Medical Misogyny and Ignorance of Female Bodies
Anastasia Lacina In the 5th century BCE, followers of Hippocrates—the founder of Western medicine—published “The Hippocratic Corpus.” The exact writers…
The Dire State of Our Environment
Samantha Butzen On November 23rd, the U.S Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released the Fourth National Climate Assessment, a congressionally…
Overworked and Underpaid: America’s Public Defender Crisis
Theodore Schoneman “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” John…
Right-Wing Extremism is America’s Most Dangerous Threat
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist.…
Larry Pressler: A Relic of Conservatism
Ryan Slattery What is your most outrageous college dorm story? Here’s mine. It was a warm but windy Wednesday afternoon.…
Governmental Censorship in the Age of Trump
In 1951, William F. Buckley, Jr. published a book entitled: “God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of…
The Personal is Political: the Power of Local Activism
Isabel Velarde Our current state of hyper-connectivity through social media allows us to stay connected to socio-political movements on the…
Civil Rights, Then and Now: A Conversation with Rev. Al Sharpton
Anastasia Lacina: Thank you so much for coming to Fordham. This is really exciting! I want to start…