Opinion
Responses to the Pandemic: A Trade-off Between Freedom and Efficiency?
As of early April, only weeks after the government was granted extraordinary emergency powers, more Filipinos had been arrested than had been tested for Covid-19.
Harvesting the Power of the American Farm to Combat Climate Change: A Reimagined Role for FDR’s New Deal
Could federal efforts to decarbonize the agricultural sector turn the tide by appealing to environmental advocates on both sides of the political spectrum?
Part 3: The Size of History
When I was younger, I attributed great size to important places. My grandparents’ condo, for example, was a labyrinth of rooms and towering ceilings. My cousins and I raced through the dark hallways like they were the Catacombs of Paris—stretching for miles, buffering the sound of our sprints and collisions with their sheer enormity.
BLM Murals and the Question of Symbolism or Support
While lawmakers got to tout their participation in making these murals as a win for BLM, the movement had really been asking for concrete policy change that put BLM’s demands into law.
Reform and Scrutiny: How Politicians and Regulators can Collaborate to Decrease HFT’s Volatility
In addition to paying close attention to the behavior of High-Frequency Traders, politicians must coordinate bipartisan, large-scale responses to economic crises in order to properly recover and diminish the harm that comes from the next one.
Remaining Somewhere in Between: Deconstructing the Mythical Past
One may argue that the Orient and the Occident neither are nor can become the things they represent, since language is always prone to being representative. This exercise regarding paintings under the light of language and representation may alert the need to change our constructed way of understanding the Occident and the Orient.
On Police Power
The guilty verdict found in former police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial marks only the second murder conviction of a Minnesota officer in the state’s over 150-year history, and the first time a white officer has been found guilty of killing an African American.