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The Donkey in the Room: How the DSCC is undermining the democratic process
Max Pushkin ’22.5 and Ben Lipson ’22.5 are two of the co-founders of Make Room, a grassroots political action committee. On a cloudy June...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


Big Brother’s Rude Awakening: How data ought to be protected in the age of the internet
Americans have prized individual liberty since the nation’s founding. Naturally, many people are suspicious of the government collecting...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


The Doctor is In: Applications of telehealth for rural populations
For most Americans in suburban or urban areas, a trip to the doctor is usually as innocuous as a quick 20-minute car ride. But for 20...
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Jan 8, 20214 min read


An Act of God: How pandemic-era judicial inconsistencies are harming small businesses
By the end of the year, the words “unprecedented,” “unusual,” and “difficult” will probably no longer mean much in our public parlance....
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Jan 8, 20216 min read


Bordering on Extinction: Protecting the biodiversity of our border regions
In California, just miles from the United States-Mexico border, a Quino checkerspot butterfly rests on the stem of a low-growing shrub....
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Jan 8, 20215 min read
A Low-Carbon Behemoth: What China’s renewable energy apparatus means for global energy politics
In September, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced to the United Nations General Assembly that China would achieve carbon neutrality by...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


Motherland: The stigmatization of single mothers and Korean adoptees
Kara Bos, who was adopted by American parents as a child, has gone to great lengths to learn about her biological family; she has posted...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read
Uncapped Potential: A case for ending country-based green card quotas
In 2016, John Doe, an Indian national who earned a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, founded a US-based computer vision...
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Jan 8, 20216 min read


Rethinking Incarceration: An Interview with James Forman Jr.
James Forman Jr. is a professor at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes about criminal law policy, constitutional law, juvenile...
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Jan 8, 20217 min read


A Safe Place to Land: Advocating for the construction of Native women’s shelters
I encountered Clare’s story while interning at a nonprofit organization in Montana doing research on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


Love in the Time of Coronavirus: How travel restrictions are disproportionally hurting international
Aimee Joe Mathew, an Indian citizen, has not seen her American boyfriend in over six months. Residing in different countries when...
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Jan 8, 20213 min read


Sculpting Our Institutions: Artists’ role in decolonizing museums
Museums are often seen as celebrations of culture and collective memory, but their colonialist histories and racist practices are seldom...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


Stuck in the Middle Without UBI: The Canadian political system’s barriers to creating change
Canadian politics have been weird lately. Always overshadowed by the circus to the south, Canadian politics tend to be tame, even boring....
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Jan 8, 20214 min read


Combining Cultures: Grappling with efforts to Germanize Islam
The German government’s historical record of integrating Muslim migrants is less than stellar. The 867,000 mostly Turkish-Muslim “guest...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


Drill, Baby, Drill: An environmentalist case for deep sea mining
Unlikely as it may seem in our current moment of political paralysis, consider the following thought experiment: A rare tide of reason...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


Cadbury, Cocoa, and Colonialism in West Africa
Before his chance encounter with a Dutch reporter in 2014, Ivorian cocoa farmer N’Da Alphonse was unaware of the fate of the beans he...
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Jan 4, 20213 min read


Anatomy of an Essential Industry: An Interview with Josh Levin ’02
Josh Levin is Slate’s national editor, author of the book The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, and the host of Slate’s...
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Jan 1, 20217 min read


Radical or Reasonable? The Case for a Federal Jobs Guarantee
The state of the union is in crisis, and a federal jobs guarantee is part of the solution. While it is easy to accept complacency, the...
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Dec 29, 20205 min read


“Just-Wing-It”: America’s Sub-Par Solution to Teaching Personal Finance
Personal finance is one of the rare issues that can unite people on all fronts. We all have money, and we all have to manage it at some...
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Dec 28, 20205 min read


Carbon Taxes are Essential, but Nearly Impossible to Implement in America Today
Carbon emissions are a quintessential example of a negative externality – an output that causes an undue negative effect on those who are...
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Dec 27, 20204 min read
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