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Low-income students need more support
Recently, I was in class and found myself feeling a profound sadness that is hard to describe. We had a guest speaker from pre-law advising and two Binghamton University alumni currently in...
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Biden must use bipartisanship to advance legislative agenda
The State of the Union address is an annual televised opportunity for the current president to highlight their best accomplishments. In his State of the Union address earlier this month, Joe Biden...
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Anti-homeless architecture perpetuates stereotypes
Midtown Manhattan’s new Moynihan Train Hall features gleaming chrome accents, a glitzy Starbucks and a stand filled with fresh flowers. Despite all of these enticements, one distinct quality remains — the awkward...
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Rural America should receive more resources
The train derailment in the Ohio town of East Palestine illustrates the significant neglect to which rural areas in the United States are subject. The response to this life-threatening disaster was inadequate...
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Netflix's password sharing ban harms families who don't live together
In 2007, the world changed. Instead of driving over to your nearest Blockbuster to secure a disk for Friday’s movie night, you could stream everything on your television through Netflix’s brand-new Watch...
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Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed judicial reform threatens Israeli democracy
For weeks, Israeli citizens have been marching consistently across the country, protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government’s suggested changes to the judicial system. Netanyahu, who is currently on trial for corruption...
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Young adults should become familiar with drinking prior to college
Prospective college students should learn how to drink responsibly prior to college, no matter what the law says. Sound ridiculous? Well not as ridiculous as pretending underage drinking doesn’t happen just because...
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We must fight back against the U.S.' capitalism-fueled biopower
The United States’ narratives are weapons aimed at those who are the most marginalized by capitalist institutions. The state seeks perpetual control through puppeteering — to tether itself to the stories of...
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'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”...
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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...