Voting Laws: The New Grandfather Clauses
Recently, changes to voting laws and district boundaries have caused an uproar; many allege that these new rules stand to ...
Opinion
Beyond Kony 2012: On Effective Global Citizenship
I have argued that Kony 2012 reveals Americans’ complicity in U.S. foreign policy and the resulting damage to “the developing ...
The Health Care Debate: Separating Heart From Head
The Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act has sparked quite a lot of discussion on ...
Digital Diagnoses Create “Cyberchondriacs”
I once convinced myself that I was suffering from laundry detergent poisoning. After noticing that my tongue was unusually numb—a ...
Kony 2012: The Mirror We Avoided Looking In
It is time that we get to the last step of Kony 2012. There are three primary conversations I consider ...
Denial of Service: Issues with Digital Accessibility
Accessibility as an issue extends beyond the physical spaces we inhabit. Consider how much of your own time is spent ...
The Cohen Chronicles: Deep in the Heart of Texas
Beginning in the 2013 Major League Baseball season, the Houston Astros will move from the National League Central to the ...
The Fallacy of Fair-Weather Feminism
I may seem like a Fair-Weather Feminist. I must clarify that my understanding of “feminism” is an ever-expanding umbrella term ...
Taking Off Kim Jong-un’s Silk Stockings
I recently came across a Letter to the Editor in The Washington Post in which Lamar F. Neville suggested that ...
Power and Hypocrisy at Wesleyan
Since I first set foot at Wesleyan, I’ve been showered with many rights and privileges that I am more aware ...