On my way to the gym, I pass small, red-brick houses lined with miscellaneous items, missing parts of roofs, and in need of a grass-cut. Poverty. They aren’t living great, they don’t have money for vacations, and they can’t go start a payment on a new car. …

Chicken Fried. Cold beer on a Friday night. A pair of jeans that fit just right. And the radio onnnnnnnnn. I used to dislike country music. No, I used to hate country music. It’s boring, I said. All it talks about is cold beer, fishing, women, and trucks. Every song…

When I arrived in Hong Kong to study abroad in late January, I was surprised to see advertisements for Huawei’s P20 smartphone, released in March of last year. I try to stay up to date with the latest smartphones and gadgets, but I wasn’t familiar with this phone- or even…

In case you haven’t been keeping up with the news, Venezuela has had some major trouble recently. On May 20, there was a national election with many different candidates: Nicolás Maduro (the incumbent), Henri Falcón (a former governor), Javier Bertucci (an evangelical pastor), and a few others. A note on…