As students and Americans, it is hard to assess what knowledge and information we are responsible for in order to be a virtuous American citizen. Now that we have the right to take part in elections, a new responsibility is put on our shoulders. We are asked to vote for the individuals we want to [...]

Laws of war and the so-called rules of engagement have always been confusing to me.  We live in a society where killing people is morally wrong, yet we have a framework through which we can justifiably engage in killing on a national level?  Granted, many of these laws are easy to support — don’t kill civilians, finish [...]

We’re all users and we all have them. That sentiment, of course, could only be applied to one thing: Facebook. It plays a central role in the individual lives of people; we use Facebook to talk, to share, to keep in touch with friends, and to make new ones. As of February 2012, over 845 million people around the [...]

The Internet, along with the development of social networks, has had a wide variety of effects on the world we live in. The Internet has provided a type of comprehensive networking which has great downstream affects for academia, allowing the existence of outstanding projects such as psychological research about mental disorders, deciphering structures of vital [...]

Many All Things Consider readers may have heard about an American soldier murdering 16 Afghanis last Sunday.  It was a horrific event, and presented in this way—a lone gunmen “inexplicably” massacres Afghan civilians—it seems difficult, if not impossible, to understand.  The American soldier, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, had a perfect military record, and it’s easy to write off his [...]