Nathan Sommer

nsommer1@binghamton.edu

13 Articles


Columns

Trend of government deregulation is harmful

There is a degree of irony in the coinciding occurrence of former President Jimmy Carter’s decline in health and the mushroom cloud looming over East Palestine, Ohio. Carter, whose legacy is usually...


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

The U.S.' lack of criticism of the Bolivian coup is hypocritical

With the memory of Jan. 6 fresh in the minds of Democratic lawmakers, loyalists of Jair Bolsonaro — the former president of Brazil — received immediate condemnation by the Western media after...


Columns

Hakeem Jeffries’ election weakened the Democratic Party

After securing enough votes in November, Hakeem Jeffries is now the Minority Leader in the House of Representatives. Jeffries, a longtime ally of Nancy Pelosi, has long been an outspoken advocate against...


Columns

Capitalism undervalues passion

We are taught to think rationally and to explain ourselves using rationality. Although rational thinking has its place, it is often emphasized at the expense of passion. Using emotion to dictate our...


Opinions

LeBron James is the best basketball player of all time

LeBron James is set to dethrone Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the all-time leading scorer during the 2023 season, igniting debate over who is truly the greatest player of all time. Rather than focusing...


Columns

Mass politics is on the decline

Karl Marx predicted a utopia without politics after the dissolution of capitalism. In the United States, an end to politics is looming — not from the decline of capitalism, but rather from...


Columns

The left should increase pressure for medical and utility debt relief

After months of talk about student loan forgiveness floating around the West Wing, millions of current and former college attendees had their nervous anticipation come to a close on Aug. 24 when...


Columns

Hardcore punk hates capitalism

In the late 1970s, a new offshoot of the punk rock movement emerged, eventually deemed “hardcore.” Two acts have been credited with catalyzing the movement: Middle Class, a punk rock band formed...


Columns

The war in Tigray deserves media attention

Far too often, those who cover global affairs in the West view the world as Western nations and those they have relationships with. If there is not an agenda to push, such...