As of Tuesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found President Donald Trump to be in violation of the First Amendment after he blocked seven different users from his personal Twitter account, @realDon...
Aziz Ansari’s latest Netflix special, “Right Now," is full of jokes. But to me, the first five minutes is the most laughable part of it all.
The Indian American comedian starts his set telling the au...
What turned into mayhem July 12, 1979, was the blur of an evening coined Disco Demolition Night by its lead promoter Steve Dahl. Dahl was a disc jockey for rock radio station "The Loop" 97.9 FM, known ...
Though a crowd of onlookers in 1933 would have thought otherwise, King Kong is not the eighth wonder of the world. Perhaps the onlookers of the world at large will never find a structure or occurrence...
Math is important, so is science, history and any other STEM course you can think of. But some people just aren’t great at it, and that shouldn’t matter when applying to an arts school.
Students at F...
Did you know Zeus was bisexual? Being queer was a fairly common thing in ancient Greece, but it is often not talked about, especially in schools.
There were many queer gods and goddesses, such as ...
During summer 2017, I needed to start looking for a job. Without help from the college, I wouldn’t have stepped foot into The Chronicle—my first graphic design job. I thought, “Me working for the newsp...
The last year and a half, The Chronicle has become my second home and, more importantly, my second family. One of the major reasons I am about to walk across the stage as a Columbia graduate is becaus...
I had no idea where my job would lead when I joined The Chronicle in August 2016. I wasn’t looking ahead because I was far too excited to be where I was. I came to Columbia solely to work for The Ch...
Halima Aden is the first hijab-wearing model to be featured in Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition. The Muslim community has been torn between praising a hijabi for representing us and saying the magazine...
Twitter has been successful in eliminating accounts affiliated with the terrorist group ISIS, using an algorithm to delete and ban at least 360,000 accounts, according to an Aug. 18, 2016, post to the...
On a Tuesday afternoon in “Genetics: Honors,” I learned of yet another industry that marginalizes people of color: DNA databases.
Of the data on which scientists have been basing genetic conclusion...
