Does Efficiency Really Make Our Lives Better When It Costs Us The Special Moments?
When a local business closes, the community around it loses not only its services but also valuable connections, characters, and ...
Opinion
Tariffs & Turmoil: An Unlikely Ally in Our Fight Against Overconsumption
If you read the news this past week, chances are you were bombarded with articles about the new tariffs proposed ...
Who Belongs on the “VIP List?”: Challenging Value, Prejudice, and Racialized Hierarchies
My TikTok “For You” page is overrun by food influencers and mukbangs. That is by my own design, of course. ...
ICE Student Abductions: Modern-Day McCarthyism
In early March, Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holding graduate student at Columbia University, was arrested in his university-owned apartment ...
What a Digital Detox Really Means in Havana, Cuba
Over winter break, I had the opportunity to partake in a mini three-week study-abroad experience in Havana, Cuba. I was ...
The Fallacy of Queerness at Wes: On Narcissistic Lesbians
Every Black woman I know has struggled with the dating sphere on this campus. Whether they were queer or straight, ...
In a Win for Russia and China, Trump Says to Ukraine: Drop Dead
Last Friday, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance engaged in an act once thought unconscionable towards an ally of ...
Spilling the Chai Tea: Gen Z’s “Decolonialism” and Indian Conservatism Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
It is difficult for me to scroll for more than five minutes on TikTok without encountering a young South Asian ...
Traveling Under Trump, While Trans: New State Dept. Policy Threatens Permanent Visa Bans For People Like Me
As an international student, I have no right to meddle with U.S. politics. The American electorate exercised their democratic rights ...
Ships that Pass in the Night: A Defense of the Situationship
A manipulation tactic, a label to maintain power, a means to avoid commitment, a fundamentally unbalanced hook-up, a friends-with-benefits-type-of-thing, unrequited ...