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Spotify Misinformation - Joe Rogan
Spotify, an extremely popular free music streaming platform, is grappling not only a legal dilemma but also a moral one. Joe Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, recently has be...
By Deetya Adikhari In Opinion Mar 30, 2022
Religion
Religion is the practice, belief, and experience of the service and adoration of Gods or a God as expressed in different forms of worship. Everyone’s perception of God is different. H...
By Paleesa Kapoor In Opinion Jan 30, 2022
Blackfishing, Representation, and Appropriation In Fashion Media
Blackfishing is the act of white people trying to look ethnically ambiguous by altering their features for the validation and support of POC (People of Colour). Major fast fashion bra...
By Maitreyee Malla In Opinion Nov 25, 2021Lil Nas X: Montero
Lil Nas X seems to be on top of the world lately. Ever since the 2019 release of the record-smashing hit “Old Town Road,” Nas proved his mastery of media and kept all eyes on himself....
By Andrew Daly In Opinion Oct 25, 2021The Tragic End to America’s Afghan Forever War
On September 11, 2001, America faced one of it’s deadliest terrorist attacks ever: the attacks on the Twin Towers, Pentagon, and an attempted attack on Washington DC. In response to t...
By Vijay Fisch In Opinion Sep 30, 2021
Climate Change Leading to a Possible Extinction of Cocoa and Coffee
Chocolate and coffee, it is hard imagining life without them isn’t it? Well, if governments don’t do something to combat climate change quickly, it might just come to that.
By Maitreyee Malla In Opinion Sep 30, 2021How much privacy do we receive on social media?
Users of the internet know that they’re being tracked by the platforms they use — most notably by Google and Facebook. Although users have some understanding, they do not realize just...
By Deetya Adikhari In Opinion Aug 25, 2021
Black Women In Sports
Black women have shown their strength, resilience, and brilliance in every aspect of life they’ve chosen to participate in. Sports are no exception but with black women’s show of grea...
By Afomia Ashebir Mekonnen In Opinion Aug 25, 2021
Police Unions: Labor Above Law
In 2007, Oakland Police Officer Hector Jimenez fatally shot an unarmed 20-year-old man. 7 months later, he killed another unarmed man, shooting him three times in the back. Jimenez wa...
By Vijay Fisch In Opinion Jul 31, 2021
Gerrymandering
Every ten years, the United States holds a census, which counts the amount of people that live in the US, among other information such as where they live. One of the most important th...
By Ketevan Gallagher In Opinion Jul 31, 2021
Pride or Greed? The Double-Sided Nature of Rainbow Capitalism
Time and time again, capitalism, by nature, exploits marginalized communities by transforming them into mere markets, and selling them back to these communities as a commodity. Rainbo...
By Deetya Adikhari In Opinion Jun 27, 2021
Being White Passing in America
Imagine looking at the current events as though you are looking through a glass dome. Imagine trying to speak and everyone looks at you as if you are talking in someone else’s voice. ...
By Andrew Daly In Opinion May 31, 2021
What LGBTQ+ Means In Indian Schools
With the availability of media giving us insights from and about people across the globe, awareness about LGBTQ+ is getting better every day, but are our institutions doing anything t...
By Maitreyee Malla In Opinion May 31, 2021
Queer and Self Identities During Lockdown
Insecurity plagues many of us, taunting our very being. It comes in several forms, whether it be through our physical appearance, gender, sexual orientation, or even personality. Some...
By Deetya Adikhari In Opinion Apr 27, 2021
Cancel Culture
Cancel Culture. A term that most of us are quite familiar with. It first started as a movement to hold people accountable, make change, and educate others but has now evolved into ost...
By Yedilsaac Degu In Opinion Mar 26, 2021
Big Data, Big Deception
In recent times, it appears that one tech leader after the other has headlined the news at a fairly consistent rhythm - one event may bring news of a day-long congressional testimony,...
By Shrinidhi Thiruvengadam In Opinion Mar 01, 2021
Colorism
Imagine yourself as a young girl in India (or even an Indian girl in the US), being warned by your family to limit your time playing with your friends to avoid getting a tan and being...
By Sameeksha Garg In Opinion Mar 01, 2021
The Cost of Beauty
Since our childhoods we’ve been conditioned to believe that people are either beautiful or ugly. In all the media we’ve consumed, there has been a specific image fed to us on what is ...
By Yedilsaac Degu In Opinion Jan 31, 2021
Should Capital Punishment Be Banned?
On July 14, 2020, Daniel Lewis Lee became the first inmate executed by the federal government since 2003. There are currently 52 other inmates on federal death row. 10 federal death r...
By Ishika Jain In Opinion Jan 31, 2021
Today's Youth Are Indeed Privileged, But Isn't That The Point?
This generation, Gen Z, has far too often been condemned for “having it easy” as a result of technology’s presence. Many have heard sentences from “Kids these days don’t know the worl...
By Vishakha Singh In Opinion Dec 30, 2020
Is High School Grooming Us To Be Readers?
I have always believed that books are better than any other medium of entertainment, be it movies, smartphone, YouTube etc. The reason is simple: only with books can I fall into a rab...
By Vishakha Singh In Opinion Dec 30, 2020
Society's Standard of Body Image
“The only person you should try to be better than, is yourself.” Society’s standard for people in this day and age, have them comparing them to each other. Constantly making a person’...
By Sanjana Mittal In Opinion Dec 30, 2020
Cultural Appropriation in Halloween
For a long time, the topic of cultural appropriation in any way or form has been hotly debated. There is a range of opinions from “Cultural Appropriation doesn’t exist” to “It is blow...
By Vishakha Singh In Opinion Oct 31, 2020
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