In 2008, I was a hope-seeking, "yes we canner," "change we can believer." I remember checking off delegates on my Obama daisy chain by the soft, hopeful glow of my Obama nightlight. On Election Day 2008, my sister and I held signs asking drivers to "Honk for Change" in Durham,...

This morning I graduated from college; specifically, the celebrity mixer known as NYU. Looking out upon a sea of purple robes, plastic-frame glasses and side-swept bangs, President Bill Clinton told us that we -- the class of 2011 -- are the future. And as the future, we must change...

Bloody protests are spreading across the Middle East and North Africa, nuclear radiation is seeping into the ocean, and our government might shut down because Congress cannot pass a budget. If you haven't seen the state of the world today, spoiler alert: not good. Even that sentence exhausted me. To...