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Thank you President Obama

It was a little more than eight years ago when President Barack Obama embraced his promise to lead the nation.

ILLUSTRATION BY ALEXX ELDER

As professionals and the public have come to recognize its medical benefits and relative safety, support for legal marijuana continues

COURTESY OF WARREN ROHNER

The recent video of YouTube prankster Adam Selah getting kicked off a plane for speaking Arabic garnered more than 31

COURTESY OF CHARLES RONDEAU & AMAZON

Just like they revolutionized the online shopping industry, Amazon wants to do the same for the grocery industry. Enter Amazon

COURTESEY OF STOLBOVSKY

Terrorism is an abnormal beast to fight. For the majority of human history, when one country goes to war with

COURTESY OF ELEKES ANDOR

Although many European nations have intervened, intervened in genocides, civil wars and refugee influx, the current refugee crisis in Europe

COURTESY OF EVAN GUEST

Throughout the course of his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump frightened many — and enticed many more — with comically implausible

ILLUSTRATION BY ALEXX ELDER

2016: There have been many years like it, but this one was special. Like every other year in history, it

Whatever ideas you had about the fabric of America, whatever values you held most sacred, whatever lines you vowed never