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In Defense of Coal Miners – Centering Corporate Cultural Manipulation in the Age of Environmentalism

Nicholas PerezJune 30, 2021June 30, 2021

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Why Defunding the Police is the First Step to a More Equitable Society

Victoria ChungOctober 12, 2020October 12, 2020

To some, defunding the police may sound like a radical solution to the countless instances of police brutality we have faced as a nation. However, it is not only plausible but also instrumental in ensuring that we do not lose more lives at the hands of police officers.

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The Personal Price of “Systemic” Healthcare Inequality

Isabella LiAugust 21, 2020August 21, 2020

Shallow attempts at cultural sensitivity might appear to encourage diversity, but in truth, they erase the true diversity that occurs within—not between—different racial, ethnic, and religious groups.

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American Dreams: Immigrant America Before and After the Pandemic

Daevan MangalmurtiAugust 20, 2020August 20, 2020

There’s no justification as potent as a pandemic for xenophobic policies and politicians.

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Our Extraterrestrial Military Space Power

Sarah McKinnisAugust 20, 2020August 20, 2020

It would be naive to imagine that space will continue to be a solely cooperative environment, as that has never been true as long as humans have had access to space.

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Beautiful Island: On Taiwan As a Modern Beacon of Freedom and Democracy

Wei-Ting ShihAugust 9, 2020August 9, 2020

Today, Taiwan is a beacon of democracy and freedom, as well as a prominent defender of human rights, yet it still faces many domestic and foreign threats to its autonomy and social-political well-being.

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On the Weaponization of Social Media

Pranav SenthilvelAugust 8, 2020August 8, 2020

With the United States considering a ban of TikTok, serious questions should be asked about the ability of a government to censor social media

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The Misleading Language of Race in Medicine

Isabella LiAugust 7, 2020August 7, 2020

When medicine relies on arbitrary standards based on race alone, when it blames “comorbidities” without acknowledging the roots of these inequalities, ultimately, it plays into the same false ideas that fuel the more obvious forms of racism.

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Cast Adrift: America’s Foreign Visitors and the Global Pandemic

Daevan MangalmurtiAugust 6, 2020August 6, 2020

With the world on lockdown and every country an island, thousands of Mongolians and other foreign nationals have now been marooned in the United States for months

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