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Columns

'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”...


Columns

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...


Columns

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,...


Guest Columns

BU graduate workers need a living wage

Binghamton University runs on the labor of its graduate workers. They deserve to be paid enough to live comfortably — they are asking to be paid enough to live. The University has,...


Columns

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...


Columns

Democrats should not engage in Republicans' culture war

The 2022 midterm elections have proved that people hate reactions to “wokeism” more than they hate woke culture itself. The Republicans had a key path to midterm dominance — talk about the...


Columns

New AI technology is exacerbating the disinformation crisis

The new language-based artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT, has taken over the internet — literally and figuratively. Pipe Dream has even already published a column discussing how the new service is affecting schools,...


Columns

Piecemeal police reform is insufficient

During the summer of 2020, the United States witnessed nation-wide protests against police brutality after George Floyd’s murder at the hands of the Minneapolis police. At the time, the potential for change...


Columns

"It Ends with Us" castings are controversial

On July 15, 2019, it was announced that a film adaptation of the book “It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover was going to be developed. Fans of the book all over...