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  • Is the Right Right on Economics?

    Is the Right Right on Economics? By Conor Smyth Artwork by Eric Kim, Design Lead Having an overly confident business student tell you that you don't understand economics is something of a rite of initiation for anyone with left-wing inclinations. Apparently, conservatives know how to run the economy. The left? Not so much. As Trump…
    2021, Emergence, National

  • The Case For Medicare For All

    If there’s one thing America’s great at, it’s sucking at healthcare. We spend way more than other developed countries on healthcare and have worse health outcomes. The last major effort at reforming the healthcare system, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, did somewhat improve access and outcomes, partially sealing the hole in the tub.…

    2020

  • Is There A Free Speech Crisis At Colleges?

    Over the last few years, certain right-leaning public figures—including Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and Carl Benjamin—have elevated the issue of free speech on college campuses to one of their top concerns. Searching any one of the four names listed above followed by “free speech” on YouTube, one will find an incredible number of…

    2018, Memory, National

  • The Resistance?

    The “resistance,” a movement ignited by the election of Trump, is for the most part Democratic, although it attracts varying degrees of Republican solidarity on certain issues. Although one might expect such a movement to resist Trump from the left, far too often it appears that the “resistance” is content to either assist in the…

    2018, Divisions, National

  • We Cannot Permit Israeli Injustice

    March 30th, 1976 is a day remembered by Palestinians as Land Day. That day marked one of the first significant mass demonstrations by Palestinians of national unity and opposition to Israeli policies. The point of contention at the time was a recent formal declaration by the Israeli government that it would expropriate lands in the…

    2018, International, Wash U & St. Louis

  • The Reality of the Fake News Hysteria

    Since the 2016 election, “fake news” has become a stunningly popular topic among politicians in America and around the world. As of November 2017, the term’s usage had increased by 365 percent since 2016. Donald Trump played a major role in its popularization, with his attacks on the media often laced with the term “fake…

    2018, Bodies, Election 2016, Miscellaneous, Modern War, National