Colin Mangan

cmangan5@binghamton.edu

5 Articles


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Property destruction in protests can be a powerful political tool when all else fails

On March 8, 2021, the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin began. Chauvin had pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter for the death of...


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"Never Trump" Republicans represent an uglier side of conservatism

In my last article before the 2020 election, I warned that there is a reactionary malignancy at the center of American politics, and that the Republican Party, as led by Donald Trump,...


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This election is much more than battle for the presidency

There is a malignancy — a term I do not use lightly — plaguing this country, and it has spread throughout nearly every element of the superstructure, particularly amid our media landscape,...


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Free speech should not be used to push a political agenda

On Oct. 8, Pipe Dream reported that Binghamton University is being investigated by the Department of Education for allegedly failing to protect the free speech rights of conservative student groups. Two months...


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America must reexamine its history with a critical, objective lens

Amid the racial inequities revealed through the coronavirus pandemic and the multiple killings of unarmed Black people by police, the United States has come to “[a] moment of reckoning,” as described by...