Thanksgiving is a time for love, food and family. It is also a time to argue with our relatives over a plate of turkey, as many of us were reminded last week. These often heated conversations have made it evident to me that America is media illiterate 鈥斅爑nable to parse the many channels through which ...
In 2018, the World Wildlife Fund claimed that, by not using plastic straws, we could 鈥渉elp change the future for our oceans.鈥� They were certainly addressing an important problem, but plastic straws constitute only a fraction of overall plastic pollution. The only viable way to mitigate plastic pollution ...
The 鈥渂illionaire鈥� has become an essential character in American pop culture. Whether we admire them, envy them or villainize them, it is difficult to deny the vast power that their wealth grants them. However, there is little consensus on how billionaires should best exercise this power for the ...
In her column, Anusha Gupta 鈥�25 offers advice for couples in a long-distance relationship.
Few topics that compel discourse quite like public education. Whether about book bans or science curricula, conversations surrounding K-12 classrooms lay bare our greatest hopes and deepest inadequacies as a democratic society. We tend to think about the great inequalities of the American public education ...
On Oct. 7, the world watched in horror as Hamas launched an unprecedented terrorist attack against Israel, killing 1,200 civilians and kidnapping around 240 more. In the weeks that have followed, Israel has carried out a horrific bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 11,000 civilians, ...
In his opinion, Ben Aizenberg 鈥�26 argues that we need to recognize the obvious benefits of insect consumption and make insects a staple in our diets.
In their column, Paulie Malherbe 鈥�26 argues that the Grammy Awards can serve an important role for upcoming artists, as long as they adapt to today鈥檚 industry.
In his column, Victor Chang 鈥�27 argues that engaging with bad-faith protestors and actors on campus only serves to strengthen and amplify them further.
The past month saw two firsts for the United States House of Representatives: first, the speaker of the House was voted out of office, and second, the speaker鈥檚 chair was taken by a Christian nationalist, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.). Aside from obvious concerns over a Christian nationalist holding one ...
Just under a year out from the 2024 election, it is clear that American politics are broken. This year alone has seen no shortage of embarrassing incidents, most notably the 22 agonizing days it took the House of Representatives to elect a new speaker. And with the rise of increasingly far-right Republican ...
The word 鈥渉angxiety鈥� has recently entered my vocabulary. It describes the feelings of anxiety that accompany a hangover after drinking too much on a night out. If you鈥檝e ever woken up with your heart racing or had uncontrollable thoughts about what you did or said the night before, you have probably ...
We are not short on problematic musicians. It feels like every other day a well-known artist makes headlines for an offensive tweet, predatory behavior or saying a slur. Anything awful you can imagine has probably been done by someone with more than 500,000 monthly Spotify listeners.
One morning in 2003, Zell Kravinsky drove to his local hospital, had his kidney removed, and donated it to Donnell Reid, a woman he had met once. Donnell Reid was overcome with happiness 鈥� after eight draining years of dialysis, the donation was giving her the chance to have a future. At first glance, ...
Despite low unemployment, growth in real wages and strong GDP figures, only 19% of Americans characterize the economy as excellent or good, and nearly half of Americans expect things to get worse. Furthermore, America is deeply politically polarized, and while the division historically fell along class ...
With every cycle of disaster, social media explodes with polarizing political content. Instagram becomes a battleground on which individuals are flooded with infographics 鈥� some that accurately reflect whatever issues they mean to tackle and some that entirely miss the mark. Many individuals repost ...
Sometimes, the difference between a platonic hangout with a friend and a first date can be difficult to ascertain. Brown students may find themselves asking a certain question to determine whether it was friendly or romantic: Did they split the bill, or did one person treat the other?
In his column, Lucas Guan 鈥�27 argues that ending college rankings wouldn鈥檛 end the power of college prestige
In their column, Paulie Malherbe 鈥�26 argues that Brown students cannot fix wealth inequality at the University without honest dialogue about its effects.
Entering college, I was hesitant about taking an economics course. When I finally did, I often found myself rationalizing the decision to those around me: 鈥淪ure, 鈥業ntroduction to Game Theory鈥� is technically an econ course, but it鈥檚 more mathematical than anything else.鈥� I now admit that my ...
