Comedy as a Coping Mechanism: Brittney Cooper's Eloquent Rage

If you offered me a million dollars to direct a “how it's made” episode where I explained the science behind creating jokes, I would thank you for your money and then flee the country. Here is a more likely scenario for most of you: imagine…

Prisoners of Presidential Power: Internment and Its Ramifications

The years leading up to the United States’ involvement in the second world war were marked by paranoia, jingoism, and most prominently Anti-Japanese sentiment. By the turn of the 20th century, that sentiment had materialized into law. 1914…