Opinion
American Art in the Age of Corporate Consolidation
From Marilyn Monroe serenading a youthful, ebullient President Kennedy to George Lucas offering A New Hope in the midst of the Cold War, Hollywood has captured the political and cultural zeitgeist of each successive generation of Americans… The story of Hollywood is the story of America, and its decline forebodes a narrower, more sterile future for all of us.
Magnets Alone Can’t Close This Divide
Following 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education, many efforts were made to provide accelerated learning opportunities to students from historically underserved communities, but those programs have not properly developed as the solution to dismantling centuries of systemic discrimination.
Diversifying Data: Why Technology Continues to Ignore People of Color
Despite technology’s reputation as being objective, the very structure that modern tech relies upon lends itself to the propagation of racism through omission.
The Tangible Effects of Political Realities: Fiction in the Time of Trujillo’s Regime
Vargas Llosa and Alvarez’s usage of the fictional format emboldens them to catalog the mindset of an array of individuals during this period and record how living under an authoritarian regime fundamentally changes people’s psychological realities, decision-making processes, and relationships.
Nicely-Suited, Self-Effacing Demagogues
Biden and Starmer may have found a new winning formula: a dignified presence to comfort critics of their radical ideas.
On Coughing Cops
A mask is a cloth buy-in to a social contract. Law enforcement consider themselves exempt.
YEH: Fight Poverty from Your Couch
Our fights against COVID-19 and poverty are impossible to disentangle. We must ensure that foreign aid continues to reach those who need it the most, both to prevent further spread of the virus as well as to facilitate our own economic recovery and future growth.
Welcome to the Wild West of Wisconsin
Over the past months, Wisconsin’s Republican have chosen politics over public safety, liberty over the rule of law, and the party’s interests over the country’s, all with the blessing of the state’s Supreme Court.