A growing number of female students are turning to arranged relationships with wealthy men for financial assistance to combat the rising costs of a university education. see more

When SPM guest author Shannon Beaver traveled to the border for a class assignment, she encountered two migrants — strangers, separated from their coyote, bonded only by their fear and desperation to come to America. see more

A rift is growing in America between a morality-driven conservative right and a polarized and oppositional liberal left. Watch as religious and academic leaders discuss the clash of politics and religion. Then meet James Davison Hunter, a scholar who explains America’s culture war. see more

There’s something about humans being held against their will, bitten by Gothic fanged seductresses and sullen-eyed vampires, that’s oddly arousing. Lisa Starry’s “A Vampire Tale,” now in its seventh year of production, tapped into the bewitching powers of vampires before baby Twihards could even spell Edward Cullen. see more

The sights, smells and experiences of downtown Phoenix’s First Fridays bring people back month after month, but recent changes to the event have shaken the First Fridays community, dividing artists and vendors, city officials and community organizers. see more

Step into ASU Tempe’s Moeur Building and step into another world. A team of researchers based out of ASU teamed up with NASA to build maps of Mars. After nearly a decade of research, THEMIS compiled over 60,000 visible light and infrared images of Mars surface. see more

Arizona State University students, and anyone else over 18 years old, can buy any of a number of relatively unknown, mood-altering substances at a shop on Mill Avenue in Tempe — legally. see more

Charlie Levy has been an independent concert promoter for 15 years. Since the passing of Senate Bill 1070, Levy has been fighting the boycott of Arizona by popular musicians that is threatening to shut down independently owned music venues. see more