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Media Polarization and Finding the Truth in Our Politics
Can we put on something less biased?” grumbled my grandfather as the evening news began to play on the TV. At first I did not understand what he meant. The MSNBC Nightly News had always seemed universal to me, its theme song and anchors’ voices ingrained in my idea of America for as long as…
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My Approach to Academics, In Review
The following are two pieces I’ve written over the past few years that, when put together, provide a chronicle of how the pursuit of multidisciplinarity has shaped my college experience so far. The first is an editorial that I wrote for my high school newspaper during the spring of my senior year. The second article,…
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A Cure Withheld
BY RACHEL BUTLER In 2012, US health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers, enough to give a bottle of pills to every adult in the country, and that number is on the rise. Prescription medications now kill more people than cocaine and heroin combined. Illegal opioids like heroin are also cheaper and…
