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The West’s Failure to Court The Global South
Zubin Rekhi This is not the 19th century anymore: Europe’s wars aren’t the world’s wars. America no longer holds enough sway to just snap its fingers and expect the rest of the world to do its bidding. On September 20, 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron took the podium at the United Nations General Assembly with…
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Clarkesworld’s Dilemma Is A Specter On All SFF Fiction
For Clarkesworld, a monthly science fiction and fantasy magazine that publishes short stories and non-fic-ion pieces, submissions are its lifeblood. Above is the graph that forced Clarkesworld to cut it off. On February 20, editor-in-chief Neil Clarke went to Twitter to share this graph, and explain what it represented: “the number of people banned ……
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Analyzing Approaches to Homelessness
We need state legislation that creates a crisis intervention model where trained mental health professionals, rather than police, respond to mental health crises. “For about nine years, I literally did not know if I was going to be killed that day or not. I was just in a terribly abusive situation and needed to stabilize…
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The Gardner STL Controversy
Emily Woodruff, Staff Writer When you have lost the trust of your allies, perhaps it is time to consider resigning. “Can you get the public’s confidence back at this point?” A reporter posed this question to St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner during a press conference she called after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed…
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The Egg Essay
Alaina Baumohl, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus | Artwork by Eric Kim, Design Director Emeritus Eggs are the greatest food form to have been created. I eat them for breakfast nearly every morning. There are dozens of wonderful and delicious ways to consume eggs, as my favorite YouTube cooking video, Bon Appetit’s “Every Way to Cook an Egg…
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Food of the Future
Plant-based meat promised guiltless consumption of red meat and more, but it now looks to have fallen flat. After years of preparation, products such as Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat showed up in grocery stores across America almost out of nowhere. In just a couple of years, the once novelty product had made legitimate inroads…
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The EpiPen Exploits
Three bites into dessert and I feel it: an unmistakable scratchiness in the back of my throat, the tingling sensation in my lips, and swelling of my eyelids. Those with allergies can relate. A closer inspection of my ice cream cup reveals hazelnuts in the nougat sauce. My face continues to balloon, and within minutes,…