Opinion
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.
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.