Desmond Keuper
dkeuper1@binghamton.edu
21 Articles
Columns
Senior Column: You'll wear lots of hats
As I sit here, hitting keys while I wait for my seminar to start, I realize that there is little I can say that will sum up my whole experience at Binghamton...
Opinions
GOP primary debate highlights common issues for candidates
The presidential primary debates, for either party, play a very significant role in determining public perception surrounding the candidates. In previous election cycles, they have cemented figures like Donald Trump as spotlight...
Columns
Form relationships with professors
Receiving your first round of syllabi is intimidating. Acquiring your textbooks and skimming through the long sections to which you will devote caffeine-fueled evenings and nights can feel similarly scary, as does...
Columns
Right wing extremists have alienated Republican Party's base
After the Silicon Valley Bank collapsed at the end of March, Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed that diversity initiatives were responsible. As governor, the issues he has focused on have included, first and...
Columns
Israel’s far-right government proves disastrous for Palestinians
Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as Prime Minister on Dec. 29, 2022, for the third time, having held the office previously between 1996 and 1999 and between 2009 and 2021. Having consistently...
Opinions
Mike Pence helped bring about Jan. 6 insurrection
On Jan. 6, 2021, far-right insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol Building. Sporting “Make America Great Again” — or MAGA — hats and Confederate and Gadsden flags, they made clear that their aim...
Opinions
U.K.'s Conservative Party is incapable of successful leadership
In 2016, the United Kingdom voted by a slim majority to leave the European Union in what came to be known as Brexit. The prime minister at the time was Conservative David...
Opinions
Sanctions are unlikely to curtail violence against protestors in Iran
On Sept. 16, Mahsa Amini was murdered by Iranian police for refusing to wear a hijab in accordance with the country’s hardline Islam-inspired laws concerning a women’s appearance in public. Public outrage...
Columns
The deaths of Mikhail Gorbachev and Queen Elizabeth II mark the end of the 20th century
England’s Queen Elizabeth II and the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union’s General Secretary, Mikhail Gorbachev, have died within two weeks of each other. Neither figure’s death in and of themselves...
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Stranger Things should come to a satisfying end in Season Five
The story arc has made sense thus far, and has been both easy enough to follow and interestingly complex. Its use of classical horror tropes has been entertaining, and its use of...