Opinion
The Tragic State of Modern Film
The famous last words of Uncle Ben to Peter Parker are: “With great power comes great responsibility”; our cinematic culture says it believes this axiom, but then refuses to show the audience the price of responsibility, the price of power.
The Boy Who Cried Buzzwords
The overuse of these hackneyed phrases anesthetizes us, leaving us unable to separate democracy’s legitimate cries for help from the discordant noise of scare tactics.
The Dangers of Media Bias
The reason why CNN and Fox choose to only cover a sliver of the actual news while fixating on the topics that draw attention is exactly that: it draws the public’s attention.
No “Integrity” Here: Why Caster Semenya Deserves to Run Free
Why do we celebrate male athletes with physical advantages but punish women for being too good?
Donald of Arabia: Is President Trump Fueling a Nuclear Arms Race in the Persian Gulf?
If MBS’s nuclear ambitions come to fruition, he will have played Trump in the most obvious and alarming way.
Doubt in our Democracy: The Peril of the Foreign Collusion Narrative
But the main driver of media polarization was certainly not troll posts from Russia. These are the results of the profit-driven, clickbait based terrain we reside in.
The Road Towards American Democracy
Citizens are realizing that their government does not represent them and, more importantly, that they have the power to do something about it.
The Fate and Legacy of Colombia’s Álvaro Uribe Velez
These reactions can only be understood in the context of Uribe’s legacy as one of the most transformative and influential Latin American statesmen of the 21st century, a man who has been both the protagonist of Colombia’s recovery from the depths of its late-twentieth-century crisis and the center of its current political polarization.