Zoe Brusso

zbrusso1@binghamton.edu

6 Articles


Opinions

Argentina's rights support for LGBTQ+ citizens should be a model for the U.S.

The United States has a long history of depicting itself as the most progressive and innovative democratic nation for civil rights. Specifically, when it comes to gender and sexual rights, “Most Americans...


Opinions

Environmental racism disproportionately distributes the consequences of consumption

Environmental racism includes but is not limited to governmental rules, policies or regulations that unevenly target neighborhoods disproportionately made up of people of color or poorer people, for locally undesirable land uses....


Opinions

Modern feminism is misunderstood

Feminism’s fundamental beliefs are that men and women should have equal rights and that neither gender nor sexuality should be a determinate of your social status. Most people would agree with the...


Columns

Putin's nationalism fuels the Ukrainian crisis

In the past few weeks, the atrocities occurring in Ukraine have taken over our media outlets and conversations. According to BBC, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “initial aim was to overrun Ukraine and...


Columns

The Constitution should be read as a living document

The divide over the Second Amendment and how it should be implemented is not a new debate in the political world. In the past few weeks, the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting has pulled...


Columns

Racial capitalism is toxic and microaggressive

Racial capitalism is an abstract idea created by Cedric J. Robinson in his 1983 book, “Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition.” In the book, he describes racial capitalism as...