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As she prepares to vote for the first time, Nirmala Singh says she can still feel the trauma of gender-based violence that’s been rippling through her life since childhood. When she was 5 years old and living in Guyana, her aunt was murdered by a former intimate partner. Moving to the U.S. as a teenager, Singh was surprised to see the same problems from back home reflected in the country she had once viewed as holding the promise for a better life. Now 26, she’s watched for years as other immigrant women in her Queens neighborhood of New York —...

Caleb Torres lost seven pounds his freshman year of college — and not because he didn’t like the food in the dining hall. A first-generation college student, barely covering tuition, Torres ran out of grocery money halfway through the year and began skipping meals as a result. He’d stretch a can of SpaghettiOs over an entire day. Or he’d scout George Washington University campus for events that promised free lunch or snacks. Torres told no one what he was going through, least of all his single mom. "She had enough things to worry about," he said... Now a senior and...

I don't write vanities, not normally not ever, but there's a first for everything. Here's a list of questions I want answered and most Americans should too. Why hasn't the upcoming Iraqi war been publically debated? Why hasn't Congress done it's job on the war? What are the actual costs going to be to the taxpayers of this war, and I don't been some ball park figures but detailed cost estimates? Best/worst case scenarios? Where is the money coming from? How much largeness will the US oil companies and defense industries receive from this war? What happens if the Iraqi...