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Is COVID a Game-Changer? How the Pandemic Could Result in a Greener Future
As the world continues to fight a global pandemic, leaders around the world are scrambling to find ways to mitigate its worst effects. They are simultaneously being pressured to cope with the virus’ impact on public health and bringing life back to normal in a safe and timely fashion. Additionally, as carbon emissions fell drastically…
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How Extremists Can Threaten, and Moderates Can Save, the Two-State Solution
During the Oslo Accords of the 1990s, Israel and Fatah both accepted the two-state solution as the basis for a peace settlement between the two nations. But Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) prevented both parties from implementing the two-state solution by launching a campaign of terrorism that incited violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel…
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Political Expression in the NFL
When NFL commissioner Roger Goodell spoke following the murder of George Floyd, nobody would realistically have thought he would acknowledge systemic racism, racialized policing, or even say the words “race” or “Black.” In fact, he confirmed what most probably expected, releasing a forced statement on May 30 offering condolences to the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud…
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Gentle Time
I wake up each morning and bask in my feelings. Some days they anchor me to my bed and make me despair; other days they caress me softly as I float just above my sheets. I bathe in time, brushing each individual tooth, spending extra seconds on the ones in the back. A hug for…
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Race in Public Education
As I drove to work this morning, an episode of NPR’s Planet Money titled “Reparations for Police Brutality” struck me as interesting. This episode covered the story of Darrell Cannon, a Black man from Chicago who was maliciously tortured into a false confession of murder. A militia of twenty Chicago police officers, known as the…
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The Inevitable Disappointment of Politics
When Benjamin Franklin wrote that “nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” he not only touched on the inevitability of these concepts but also addressed the universal fear and loathing directed toward them. And while nothing may be done about inescapable death, people have tried to avoid and modify taxes since…
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The Flaw with Social Media Activism
In the past few weeks, there has been a tremendous uptick in “activist” posts on social media—part of a mass awakening by the American public to the injustices inflicted upon the Black community by systemic racism. Since the release of the footage of George Floyd’s murder online, the public outcry condemning the police and the…
