It’s long been suspected that Big Tobacco money was behind early efforts to attack the e-cig industry because it posed a potential threat to the tobacco cigarette industry. Now it’s apparent Big Tobacco

By Luther Blissett Imagine walking to a park in a fairly average medium-sized city on a warm Summer day. There you see groups, pairs and individuals of different ages and races slowly milling about, some

By Luther Blissett and J. F. Sebastian of Arkesoul Perhaps no philosophical concept more aptly describes the current cultural milieu than hyperreality, characterized by wikipedia as “an inability of

By Luther Blissett and J. F. Sebastian of Arkesoul In February 2015 Ross Ulbricht was convicted of money laundering, computer hacking and conspiracy to traffic narcotics for his role (either with or as

Countless clips can be found exemplifying the comic genius of Charlie Chaplin, but the enlightened aspect of his soul was never more apparent than in his monologue at the end of "The Great Dictator"

By Reid Mukai In February of 2014,, NBC and a number of other corporate news sites reported on cluster of extremely rare and severe birth defects in Yakima, Benton and Franklin counties in Washington State.

To have even a basic understanding of Nicaraguan culture it's important to first know a little about the land's history. In the Pre-Columbian era, the region now called Nicaragua was inhabited by several

By Reid Mukai Given its richness and complexity, it would be impossible to give an accurate overview of contemporary Nicaraguan society without years of research and experience within the country. What

People who only follow corporate media might reasonably assume our society is hopelessly divided with no common ground whatsoever. While it's true our society is conflicted on many issues, on closer

Pseudo-sociological trend pieces are a dime a dozen these days, but a recent one called Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy stands out because it's apparently been the center of much intergenerational

By Luther Blissett and J. F. Sebastian of Arkesoul A few years ago, Neal Stephenson wrote a widely-shared article called Innovation Starvation for the World Policy Institute. He began the piece lamenting