top of page


The DMA Dilemma: How Social Media Advertising is Replacing Political TV Ads
Any family that decides to surf channels on the TV to watch the news, sports, or a movie in the fall of an election year will undoubtedly...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 29, 20185 min read


Buy and Sell Ideologies
For just $11.99 you too can be the proud owner of a “Che Guevara Revolution T-Shirt!” This statement is ironic in that a fervent Latin...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 22, 20184 min read


The Fare of Fairness: The Fundamental Injustice of Fair Trade
Defying the Social-Darwinist underpinnings of the market-based economy, the Fair Trade movement is a consumer-driven, capitalist approach...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 18, 20184 min read


Why Data Disaggregation Matters for Asian-Americans
Since the 1960s, America has vaunted Asians as the nation’s model minority. Simultaneously overrepresented at Harvard (relative to the...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 18, 20185 min read


The Tainted Grace of Jahseh Onfroy, Hidden Among Controversy and Violence
"“I ain’t have no positive upbringing, you know how fucking hard this shit is? You know how fucking hard I try just to be a good role...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 18, 20187 min read


The Bloody Nose Policy: Nukes on Thin Ice
Since the beginning of the ongoing North Korea crisis, Donald Trump’s rhetoric has only caused tensions to rise. However, promises of...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 18, 20184 min read


California Deserves a Better Property Tax Law Than Prop 13
California’s housing crisis is well-documented. Palo Alto, home to Stanford, offers subsidized housing assistance for any household with...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 18, 20186 min read


Kim Strikes Gold: How North Korea Is Using The Olympics To Reshape Its Image Abroad
Kim Jong-un turned thirty-four on January 8, 2018, but the international community waited until February to present him with the best...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 17, 20184 min read


Brazil’s Democratic Woes: Anti-Elitism and the (re)Emergence of Illiberalism
At the end of January, a Brazilian appeals court ruled unanimously to uphold the bribery conviction of former president Luiz Inácio Lula...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 17, 20185 min read


Libya since 2011: Bias and International Oil Interests
Libyan politics and governance have been unstable and chaotic for the past eight years. Because of the country’s significant position as...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 17, 20185 min read


Self-Immolation for Tibet: Why the Dalai Lama’s Silence is Costing Lives
Suffering under Chinese oppression, Tibet is one of the least free regions of the world. It is, in fact, the second to least free–behind...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 17, 20186 min read


Crunch Time: Constructing a Nation-wide Health Database
Data science has recently matured into an industry-changing discipline, driven by exponentially growing computing power, data, and wildly...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 17, 20185 min read


When the Stream Runs Dry: Labor Rights for the Netflix Generation
Considering the sheer size of “golden age” television’s critically acclaimed programs, it comes with irony that Hollywood barely avoided...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 16, 20186 min read


Money Talks and Justice Walks at Michigan State
As the recent sex abuse trial of former United States Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar unfolded, it became apparent that there existed...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 16, 20184 min read


1.1: Welcome, Cybersecurity, and the Johnson Amendment
#BPRadio #cybersecurity #JohnsonAmendment #podcast
chiefofstaff1
Mar 9, 20181 min read


Crisis in Cape Town
Earth Day 2018 will take place in a time of great uncertainty. It is a day that means different things to different people. For some, the...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 8, 20186 min read


Milo’s Satanic Verses: The Not-So Banned Book of 2017
Of the many canons in global literary history, specific attention has always been paid to banned and censored books. The reason for this...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 7, 20184 min read


Too Close for Comfort: Sexual Harassment and the Art Industry
Amidst a flurry of sexual misconduct accusations against famous portrait artist Chuck Close, the National Gallery of Art in Washington...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 7, 20185 min read


No Viable Left: Failing the Middle Class
The political parties of the United States continuously fail the nation’s poor. Republicans have devised a tax plan that disenfranchises...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 5, 20184 min read


Left Behind: The Demise of Germany’s Center-Left
In the German federal elections this past September, the country’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) received only 20.5 percent of the...
chiefofstaff1
Mar 5, 20184 min read
bottom of page
