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Rural America should receive more resources

The train derailment in the Ohio town of East Palestine illustrates the significant neglect to which rural areas in the United States are subject. The response to this life-threatening disaster was inadequate...


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Netflix's password sharing ban harms families who don't live together

In 2007, the world changed. Instead of driving over to your nearest Blockbuster to secure a disk for Friday’s movie night, you could stream everything on your television through Netflix’s brand-new Watch...


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Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed judicial reform threatens Israeli democracy

For weeks, Israeli citizens have been marching consistently across the country, protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government’s suggested changes to the judicial system. Netanyahu, who is currently on trial for corruption...


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Young adults should become familiar with drinking prior to college

Prospective college students should learn how to drink responsibly prior to college, no matter what the law says. Sound ridiculous? Well not as ridiculous as pretending underage drinking doesn’t happen just because...


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We must fight back against the U.S.' capitalism-fueled biopower

The United States’ narratives are weapons aimed at those who are the most marginalized by capitalist institutions. The state seeks perpetual control through puppeteering — to tether itself to the stories of...


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'30 Rock' offers accurate satire on pop culture

For a good amount of time, the animated comedy television series “The Simpsons” was known as the prognosticator-in-chief in the wide world of TV shows. A quick Google search of “Simpsons predictions”...


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Werewolf characters are queer coded

Since the dawn of the term “monstrosity,” queerness has been interwoven with the concept of disruptive, hybrid identities — identities par for the course in paranormal stories. There is a tight connection...


Sex Issue 2023

Diverse male contraception should be accessible

With the overturning of the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, attention has been turned toward improving contraceptives and their accessibility in the United States. No longer having abortion protected under the...


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George Santos should be expelled

“It’s hard to understand the quantity and depth of the lies my new congressman has told” is a sentence that I never thought would be said, even euphemistically. I am from Syosset,...


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Universities need to do more to address seasonal depression

I woke up on my not-so-cushioned slab of bedrock this morning, in my shoebox-sized dorm room, and peeled my eyes open to peer out the window and see gray. Not just any...