Opinion
The Fall of Technocracy: How the United States’ Rejection of Expertise Corrodes its Global Standing
With leadership shrouded in lethargy, instead of progressing forward with ambition and determination, the U.S. finds itself morphing into a mere shadow of its former self.
Our Carceral System is a Plague Too
Police brutality and mass incarceration occupy significant space within the torn and ragged picture of our country’s rampant health care injustice. But as the pandemic sharpens and clarifies these disparities, elevating their life-or-death stakes to new levels, we grant law enforcement even more control.
“The Half of It” and Hollywood’s Timid Steps Towards Diversity
The dilution of one’s identity is the reality for most POC and LGBTQ+ individuals who are taught to blend into a world not created for them. Brave storytellers have the power to change this narrative by giving a voice to those whose voices have yet to be heard.
A Second Golden Age Of Spaceflight?
The reemergence of the U.S.’s ability to independently access outer space may seem simple to some, but it marks a momentous shift that will open up a new era of space travel.
Footnotes to Orwell
Orwell’s essay has become at once a document of both historical non-fiction and prophecy: we are watching the processes which Orwell described play out in the 21st century crisis of democracy.
On Resilience and the Rural Experience
The school climate an individual is brought up in impacts one’s entire life trajectory, feeding into institutional, socio-economic, and representational systems of inequality.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Through her work, Adichie seeks to dismantle the pervasive “single story” of Africa, arguing that “stories have been used to dispossess and malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.” This urgency and desire to provide a more nuanced narrative and amplify the voices of the unheard is easily apparent in Adichie’s 2006 novel, Half of a Yellow Sun.
All Rise: Judicial Algorithms in the Courtroom
Minorities have, and continue to be, discriminated against. Judicial algorithms can further perpetuate their second-class status by subjecting people of color to longer periods of incarceration.