Last year, Elon Musk proclaimed that AI was already smarter than the smartest person in the world, and soon will be smarter than all of the smartest people in the world collectively. No matter how one might feel about this statement, it is undeniable...
George Orwell’s canonical work, 1984, warns of a future in which the all-powerful ‘Big Brother’ dictates truth by rewriting history so that only one version of the world can exist. Orwell frames this dystopian dictatorship as attempting to dilu...
Over the past five years, American politics has celebrated a new archetype: the Gen Z candidate. They are fluent in both digital culture and political language and are often presented as the generation poised to rescue democracy from inertia. Yet ben...
The precedent-defying Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Clinic has reignited a conversation about sex education policy. With abortion made illegal in many states accross the nation, many have argued that American teens need mor...
The precedent-defying Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Clinic has reignited a conversation about sex education policy. With abortion made illegal in many states accross the nation, many have argued that American teens need mor...
As the dust settles on another midterm election, several winners have emerged from this year’s remarkably fluid congressional contests. The Democrats had a better night than almost any pundits expected, expanding their Senate majority while limitin...
As the dust settles on another midterm election, several winners have emerged from this year’s remarkably fluid congressional contests. The Democrats had a better night than almost any pundits expected, expanding their Senate majority while limitin...
On October 11, 2022, The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum returned its long-contested Benin Bronze Heads to Nigeria. The RISD Museum is one of many museums around the world that have begun to repatriate bronzes from the Benin Kingdom that ...
On October 11, 2022, The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum returned its long-contested Benin Bronze Heads to Nigeria. The RISD Museum is one of many museums around the world that have begun to repatriate bronzes from the Benin Kingdom that ...
“The rats don’t run this city, we do,” New York City Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch proclaimed in an October 18 announcement. Alongside Mayor Eric Adams, Tisch revealed that starting April 1, 2023, New Yorkers will be fined if they put t...
“The rats don’t run this city, we do,” New York City Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch proclaimed in an October 18 announcement. Alongside Mayor Eric Adams, Tisch revealed that starting April 1, 2023, New Yorkers will be fined if they put t...
Amid concerns surrounding high inflation and President Biden’s low approval ratings, many pollsters predicted that the midterm elections would bring in a “red wave,” leading to a sizable Republican majority in both the House and the Senate. How...
Amid concerns surrounding high inflation and President Biden’s low approval ratings, many pollsters predicted that the midterm elections would bring in a “red wave,” leading to a sizable Republican majority in both the House and the Senate. How...
The United States has a historically fraught relationship with green spaces. In the name of Manifest Destiny, the Homestead Act (and other legislation) forcibly displaced indigenous communities across the continent to benefit settlers who would turn ...
The United States has a historically fraught relationship with green spaces. In the name of Manifest Destiny, the Homestead Act (and other legislation) forcibly displaced indigenous communities across the continent to benefit settlers who would turn ...
In the early 1970s, Allan Bakke was rejected twice by the University of California Davis School of Medicine. Bakke sued the university, claiming he was rejected because he was white. At the time, the medical school reserved 16 out of 100 spots in eac...
In the early 1970s, Allan Bakke was rejected twice by the University of California Davis School of Medicine. Bakke sued the university, claiming he was rejected because he was white. At the time, the medical school reserved 16 out of 100 spots in eac...
When Haley Hedrick was 16 years old, she was awoken one night to a nightmare scenario. Two strangers were standing in her bedroom, telling her that she needed to come with them and saying “you can do this the easy way, or you can do this the hard w...
When Haley Hedrick was 16 years old, she was awoken one night to a nightmare scenario. Two strangers were standing in her bedroom, telling her that she needed to come with them and saying “you can do this the easy way, or you can do this the hard w...
The January 6th insurrection on the US Capitol will go down in history as perhaps the best example of the dangers of extremism in the US political system. On the fateful day, Ali Alexander, a prominent promoter of the “Stop the Steal” campaign on...
The January 6th insurrection on the US Capitol will go down in history as perhaps the best example of the dangers of extremism in the US political system. On the fateful day, Ali Alexander, a prominent promoter of the “Stop the Steal” campaign on...
When Hurricane Ian made landfall near Cayo Costa, Florida on September 28, 2022, it brought storm, sea, and devastation. The areas most severely affected by Ian’s wrath were unsurprisingly the areas inherently most vulnerable to landfalling hurrica...
When Hurricane Ian made landfall near Cayo Costa, Florida on September 28, 2022, it brought storm, sea, and devastation. The areas most severely affected by Ian’s wrath were unsurprisingly the areas inherently most vulnerable to landfalling hurrica...
America’s favorite treat, sugar, is not as sweet as it seems. The sugar industry’s manipulation of a 1960s research review, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, changed the way Americans think about sugar and, most importantly, how t...
America’s favorite treat, sugar, is not as sweet as it seems. The sugar industry’s manipulation of a 1960s research review, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, changed the way Americans think about sugar and, most importantly, how t...
At $369 billion, the recent Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the single biggest investment to fight climate change in American history. Official estimates put the United States on track to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and reach net ze...
At $369 billion, the recent Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the single biggest investment to fight climate change in American history. Official estimates put the United States on track to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and reach net ze...