The Epstein Effect: Can We Stop Caring Yet?
Jeffrey Epstein is dead, and thank God about it. We can all move on with our lives. Right? It took me a while to be able to sit down and write this article, because I […]
Category: Society
The Ethics of Unpaid Internships
Internships, both paid and unpaid, have become a recent phenomenon in 21st century United States. Undergraduate college students experience pressure to graduate with an internship on their resume to prove to employers that they have […]
Rehab vs. Control
Over 2.3 million people, adults and juveniles alike, are currently in some sort of correctional facility in the United States. Our country has the highest rate of incarceration per capita in the world, yet over […]
Sexism Kills: Medical Misogyny and Ignorance of Female Bodies
In the 5th century BCE, followers of Hippocrates—the founder of Western medicine—published “The Hippocratic Corpus.” The exact writers of this ancient text are lost to history, but their views of the human body prevailed for […]
The Electoral College: Extinction or Evolution?
The biggest news of the 2020 electoral season (so far) is the ever-growing pool of Democratic candidates whose progressive policies are ever more in the mainstream. Recently, the senator from my lovely home state of […]
Northern Ireland and the Implications of Brexit
Discussions revolving around Brexit and what it will actually mean for the United Kingdom have been in the works since before 2016. Originally set for March 29, 2019 the day the UK will officially leave […]
Is Ilhan Omar Wrong?
On Sunday, February 10th, freshman Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota’s 5th Congressional district sparked a major controversy with tweets about AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Kevin McCarthy was fiercely defending U.S. support for […]
Why Representation Matters
If you are a straight, white, cisgender, able-bodied man or woman, it is likely that you have never given diversity much thought because you have always been represented. You have always shopped in a store, […]