Nominations are evil. I am sure I am going to get one or two just for writing this op-ed. I have already received one. In this new age, the modern definition of a “nomination,” at least as long as the fad lasts, has absolutely nothing to do with politics or prestige — it’s more about infamy. ...
What if I told you there were only one thing you needed to do to own American politics for the next 50 years? The Pew Research Center estimates that at current rates of immigration, 19 percent of our residents will be foreign-born by 2050. Hispanics, many of whom constitute one of our dominant immigration ...
A friend of mine got arrested last month for drunk driving. She endangered other people, she went to jail, and her job prospects are damaged. Growing up, my parents and my friends’ parents always said “Don’t Drive Drunk Ever.” Obviously, they are right. What we don’t usually hear is the arrested ...
Being powerful makes you a worse person. Now the above is a generalization, but it is a claim made by a growing number of studies. Multiple publications have found that the more social power a person has, the less they pay attention to those under them. Certain studies have analyzed five-minute meet-and-greets ...
President Christina Paxson recently announced she was starting an Environmental Change Taskforce. Now, I am not sure if this taskforce will advocate for anything more than local measures like asking people to take shorter showers, shut their windows, turn down their radiators and not divest coal, but ...
On Sept. 22, 2011, I thought I killed someone. We were hiking in a group in an extremely rural part of India’s northern border. We were supposed to stop to camp. I strongly advocated that we continue. Eventually, I convinced our daily leaders of the merits of continuing. One person never made it ...
Enriquez '16: Earning the name Brown was founded by a family that accrued vast wealth by trading human beings. Directly and indirectly, the family killed thousands, uprooted tens of thousands and ruthlessly made money by doing so. Should we remove their surname and ruin our school’s identity? Absolutely ...
“They shot my baby, my baby,” said the mother of 7-year-old Desirae Macias. That child is now brain-dead. Probably more than 80 years of life, joy, sadness, regret, love, hope, all erased by a gun in an angry man’s hand. At 92 years strong, Cornelius Swinton was shot as he drove his taxi. He ...
New York may not be the most beautiful city I have ever seen, but it definitely takes the cronut on constant energy and excitement. That’s because location is everything. It’s why Hamptons real estate is stratospherically expensive. It’s why semi-intelligent people such as myself semi-idiotically ...
They say curiosity killed the cat. Let’s be more concrete. Before democracy became the bee’s knees and freedom of speech became a protected right, curiosity killed the heretic. It’s a little less appealing to say it that way, and it definitely would be harder to explain to a child, but this is ...
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