The Current - MSU Current Magazine

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

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?

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