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Religious Decline In The U.S.
Are Self-Checkouts Selfish?
Evolution Of An Artist
How The Fame Of Peter Pan “Petered” Out
r/antiwork and Online Collective Action
The Strange Appeal of Liminal Spaces
Gambling and Match Fixing: An Inevitable Pairing
Moon Worship Across The Ages
Liver King and Primal Romanticization
Bathrooms and Noble
The Darker Side of Pokemon
Wow, That Fictional Character Is Literally Me
From Software’s Absolutely Maidenless Behavior
Doe-n’t Ignore What’s Up With Deer
Farm to Table: MSU Student Organic Farm Struggles With Support
Puppy Kisses For Serotonin
Still Keeping Up With The Kardashians
Bridgerton Season 2: Changing History in Hopes of Making It
Dungeons And Dragons Resurgence Edition
The End Of Setting Clocks Back?
Not So Sweet
Disney’s Debacle with the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill
“The Dropout” And Its Characterization Of Elizabeth Holmes
Is Your Phone Killing You?
Are Humans Still Evolving?
Does Art Need To Come With A Warning?
How “Turning Red” is Turning Heads on Social Media
Critical Race “Theory” or Truth?
The Bachelor’s Final Rose
Kanye West: When Art Becomes Dangerous
Peeking At Anime In the U.S.
Fight Like a Girl
The Golden Wheel to Door Ratio
Watching The Watchmen
The New Dorm Essentials
Euphoria Season 2: Not So Euphoric
The Light Revolution
Kids & Creativity: Why Art is Needed
Recession Pop: Dancing Through The Pain
How The MCU Changed The Superpowered Game
Wordle: The New Generation’s Crossword
The Great Lakes Are In For A Crude Awakening
Black Cats Deserve Better
Transhumanism: Will We Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Resident Evil’s Surprising Return to Survival Horror
Pokémon: Moving in a Better Direction
A Foray Into Final Fantasy XIV
Social Media Stars Are Saving Boxing
Trader Joe’s Is Coming To Grand River
It’s Time To Expel The Schoolgirl Trope
Big Tech Is Watching You
A Modest Proposal For MSU
In Your Dreams: Understanding What Happens While You Sleep
Begone, Dissent: The Removal of the YouTube Dislike Count
Are High Textbook Prices Justified?
Movies in 2022
The “Genre” Of Animation
Unionize: An Honest Plea
The #ConspiracyTok to QAnon Pipeline
Van Gogh: Why We Shouldn’t Romanticize Tortured Artists
Compulsive Coping
How Old Is Too Old?: Ageism in Hollywood
How “YOU” Highlights Our Love of Criminals
The Reality of Escapism
Ms. Monopoly Misses The Mark
For His Eyes Only: Identifying and Combating the Male Gaze
Motown: Discord Behind The Sound
The Real Magic Within Harry Potter
Don’t Look Up —Except You Definitely Should
The Savage Side of Salmon
Who Gets a Ticket to Space? Only the Top 1%
Food Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Simception
NFTs: Art’s Deadliest Creation
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss
Spider-Man’s Return to Theaters
Are Hydrogen Powered Cars the Future?
You Need To Read This Book: Play like a Feminist
Reduce, Reuse, Re-waste: The Shortcomings of Recycling
The Importance of Proper Sex Education on TV
Who Stopped The Music?
Rise of the Playable Heroine: How Women Protagonists Have Leveled Up
SpaceX and Tesla: Paving the Future with No Diversity
Benton Harbor is the Newest Michigan City to Face Lead Contaminated Water
The Strange Portrayals of Teens on TV
Selling Femininity
Reasons To Repair
The Curse of Hollywood’s Video Game Genre
Record Players vs. Turntables
Did Disney+ Do ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ Right?
For (White Men’s) Entertainment Only: Unpacking Hollywood’s Fetishization of Asian Women
Difficulty Level: Realistic
Keep Calm and Redeploy: Planetside 2 Is On The Upswing
Top 10 “I Think You Should Leave” A-holes
Book-Toxic: Combating the Standards Set By the Online Book Community
NFL Under Fire
33 Years of Relevancy: A Closer Look at the Legacy of Akira
Foul Waterfowl
The Rise Of Funko Pops
The Oregon Trail Game Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation
Humans vs. Robots: The Battle of Buying Online
New Horizons, Old News
To the Core: The Crippling Culture of High School Athletics
The Lost Art of Analog Recording
Go Green
Pandemic vs. Gaming
Trebek’s Replacement
The Problem With Product Placement
Trauma, Disability & Popcorn
The Long Road to Dune
Online Dating in a Digital Age
The College That Cried Wolf
It’s Time to Redefine Cancel Culture
After Decades of Absence, Aaliyah’s Music is Finally Available to Stream
Men and Makeup
Pawing At Heartstrings
What it Took to Be Miss Black MSU
The War Over America’s Superfood
God, It’s Brutal Out Here
The Hidden Implications of Swiping Right
Overwhelmed and Overlooked: Women with ADHD
Insulin Prices: Breaking the Bank
New Old Skills
#BookTok Has a Shopping Addiction
Second Chance to First Choice: The Rise of Thrift
Apple’s Encryption Sent to the Crypt
Blizzard: Making Sexism and Racism Acceptable in Gaming
Please Don’t Stop the Music
Radical Listening
Do you hate Taylor Swift, or is it just misogyny?
Amazon: The Mystery of the Capital Letters
The Future of Downtown East Lansing
Op-ED: Cancel H.P. Lovecraft
Amazon: Behind The Smile
The Weirdo Trope: Why Do We Care How They Dress?
‘Solar Power’ is Powerless — And Lorde Knows It
Covid’s Impact on MSU and Our Hopeful Return to In-Person Classes
The Hardest Part Of Self-Publishing
Club Fencing Returns To The ‘New Normal’
MSU’s Co-op Culture
Falling for the Comfort of Fictional Characters
Dying to go all the way
Still Catching Them All
The Political Psyche: Conservatism vs. Liberalism
Is Meme Culture Problematic
Paving Paradise for Parking
Double Standards in Dress Codes
Spiral-ing Out
Grey’s Anatomy Season 17: Flop or Not?
Creating Something Out of Nothing: Artists Thrive During the Pandemic
Asian Fishing: When Appreciation Becomes Appropriation
MSU’s Working Class: The Employment Endeavors of Peers and Friends
The Problem with Binaries: The Color Pink
“I’m so OCD!” and other phrases to get rid of in casual conversation”
101 Dalmatians Abandoned after Cruella
Cracking the Code
Hypocrisy, Gentrification and the Tiny House Craze
The End of the Masked Era in Michigan
Racial Imposter Syndrome
Pride: 2021: How to Celebrate
Sight Unseen: the institutional and social struggles of the invisibly disabled
Adventures in Adaptations: “Cats” the Movie
Systematic Dehumanization in American Prisons: A Brief Overview
Just Me, Myself and I(vy)
The Implications of Overturning Roe v. Wade
Adventures in Adaptations: Shadow and Bone
Streaming and Scheming: Is Unique Content Worth the Cost?
TikTok: The Digital Drug
From Private to Profit
Support Local Business: Michigan Artists and Bands
The Trials of Alexei Navalny, Russia’s Most Outspoken Critic
Defined by Disney
Zoomed In and Burned Out
Are Studio Ghibli Films Anime?
Women in STEM
Free Food Stands Fulfill Local Communities
Love Languages Decoded
Ya Like Jazz?
Spartans Will (Spread COVID-19)
$1400 for 16,000: Student Pandemic Stimulus
Skin Care: Cleaning out Bank Accounts
Misunderstood Meows: What Cats are Really Trying To Say
You Haven’t Been Listening If You’re Surprised by the Anti-Asian Violence
Fencing: The Sport For Everyone
A Fuel Fallacy: Biden Isn’t To Blame for Higher Gas Prices
Opening the Doors for Closed Captioning
The Drawbacks of Texting: Are Personal Relationships in Trouble?
Where Are They Now: How the Class of 2020 Has Coped with Graduating into a Pandemic
Dolly Parton’s 5 Most Radical Albums
A Not So Mental Health Day
Music to Keep Alive: Lauryn Hill
Can Learning a Foreign Language Improve your English?
The Trouble with Travel
OPINION: Something’s Rotten in the MSU College of Education
ALL CAPS: Remembering Rap’s Greatest Supervillan
Pills, Pills, Pills
No Boys Allowed: The Rise of Female-Only Gyms in America
OPINION: Squarespace’s “5-9:” A Capitalistic Nightmare
Foreign Classic: “Snow Country”
A Waking Nightmare: Dreaming During a Pandemic