AmeriCorps is often described as the domestic Peace Corps. AmeriCorps is a national service program founded in 1993 by the passage of the National and Community Service Act, but has roots back to John F. Kennedy’s presidency in the sixties. Their focus areas include education, economic opportunity, disaster response, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, veterans, and […]
As the country now finds itself in the thick of yet another presidential election cycle, the names of candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are indelibly seared into the subconscious sentience of just about anyone who has turned on a television or logged into a computer over the past 12 months.
The controversy over America’s most popular film, American Sniper, is still lingering after the Oscars on Sunday night and the murder trial of Eddie Ray Routh—the alleged killer of Chris Kyle, the movie’s main character played by Bradley Cooper—all happening at the same time.
