Response to “A Hard Truth for Progressives”
Last November, Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the presidential election, eking out narrow victories in crucial swing states. But down-ballot, the Democrats suffered greatly. While pollsters expected them to add to their 2018 gains, Democrats lost a dozen seats in the House. In the Senate, they lost manageable pickups in states like North Carolina, […]
Amazon’s Twitter Lies Change Lives
On March 29, Amazon workers voted in Bessemer, Alabama on whether to unionize an Amazon fulfillment center. These warehouses store items and workers pick, pack, and ship them out to consumers. The corporation ultimately achieved yet another victory against unionization, with the vote overwhelmingly in favor of not joining the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store […]
Ilhan Omar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the Antisemitism Card
On February 4, the House of Representatives voted 230-199 to remove Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia’s 14th district, from her committee assignments. The House sanctioned Greene for her past statements embracing QAnon, seeming to endorse the assassination of prominent Democratic figures, and harassing the victims of school shootings—tragedies she dismissed as false […]
The Economics 101 of Post-Pandemic Healthcare
While “opportunity” is rarely used to describe the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have had a unique opportunity to witness both the strengths and pitfalls of the healthcare system over the past year. The high cost of medical care provides a strong entrepreneurial culture that the pharmaceutical industry harnessed to create and distribute innovative treatments rapidly. Yet, […]
Millions of people could go unvaccinated. Here’s why.
A pandemic-free world is a pipe dream unless every person is vaccinated. And that can only be reached if every single person has access to the vaccine. Each day, hundreds of thousands of Americans receive the vaccine for the novel coronavirus. Yet, as millions of people have their fear of the virus erased, millions more […]
What Actually Flattened the Curve
Research conducted by Jake Egelberg, Stephanie Luiz, and Natalia McMorris. All original data in this article is preliminary and subject to change.
The Case for Abolishing the Death Penalty
This article describes executions, including botched ones.
Go Away, NRA!
On January 15, the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) filed for Chapter Eleven bankruptcy, which usually signifies an intention to reorganize. The NRA wishes to reincorporate in Texas to evade litigation from local authorities, a move New York Attorney General Letitia James claims indicates the NRA’s failing financial strength. It is as if it […]
Off-Campus Censorship: Freedom of Speech in the Digital Age
“Fuck school. Fuck softball. Fuck cheerleading. Fuck everything.” This is what high school freshman B. L. captioned a Snapchat after discovering that she did not make the varsity cheerleading team. In the photo, B. L. and a friend were in a convenience store sticking out their tongues and raising their middle fingers. The self-deleting Snap […]
The United States Is Not a Real Democracy
We have to look past the circling buzzards. After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September, many observers lamented the Republican leadership’s rank hypocrisy in immediately filling her seat despite stonewalling Merrick Garland four years earlier. But the critical problem wasn’t the GOP’s disregard for the rule they’d concocted. It was their normalized […]