Opinion

Collective Relief and a Call to Action

I had to pull my car over because the tears were blurring my vision. As…

The video depictions of racial terror are today’s “Strange Fruit.” We Shouldn’t Share Them.

While we wait for the Derek Chauvin verdict, I can’t stop thinking about the role…

Are We Facing a New Era of Medical Science? mRNA-Based Therapies beyond the Covid-19 Vaccines

I am a high school student who has been living the highs and lows of…

Sports Journalism Could Have Helped Us Tackle COVID-19

President Biden and former President Barack Obama will be appearing in the “Roll Up Your…

Lives Depend on Ethnic Studies

The United States is built, in part, on a legacy of anti-Asian violence. The blaming…

It’s Time to Insure Regenerative Medicine

Aging baby-boomers have increased the demand for tissues and organs, with approximately half a million Americans…

The Value of Being Ordinary: Access to Energy is Not Like Youth Sports or GRE Scores

As an electrical engineering professor, I’m used to people thinking that access to electrical energy…

The Relationship Between Gentrification and Incarceration

Gentrification, also known as Urban displacement, is the process by which historically disinvested neighborhoods are…

The Machine That Ate Democracy: How Social Media and Big Data are Eradicating Voter Agency

Oh, glorious democracy! The only system in the world where the people can think and…

Say This, Not That: Reshaping COVID Conversation To Healthy Sharing, Not Anxiety Inducing

It was April 2020 and along with three other healthcare providers, I was headed to…

Sea of White Faces Across America’s Teaching Force

When “China virus” or “Kung flu” became racist substitutions for the pandemic, are we surprised…

Lessons Learned from Remote Learning

We are in the midst of one of the most challenging times in the history…

One Easy Way to Improve Quality of Life for 7,000 Different Rare Diseases

I was born with a rare disorder you have almost certainly never heard of: Moebius syndrome.…

Can the Biden Administration’s Immigration Policy Reignite America’s Innovation Engine?

The pandemic-driven shelter-in-place orders American must live with today and for the foreseeable future have…

The Climate Crisis Solution is Educational Institutions

Recently, NASA’s former chief climate scientist, James Hansen, blasted U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson for…