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Pharmaceutical drugs should not be advertised on TV
As the screams of fans die, beer cans begin to fill our recycling bins and the last piece of confetti is swept up, we mark the end the 2022 Super Bowl. As...
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Binge watching on streaming services is unsustainable
Streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Disney+ have experienced tremendous success over the past few years in terms of content creation and subscription growth. However, the content binge model that these platforms...
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America should embrace Modern Monetary Theory
If there’s anything to be taken away from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that our country is broken. In terms of health care, we simply don’t have the capacity with current private and...
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Riot Grrrl is not a radical movement
Riot Grrrl was a deeply personal, yet political, punk subgenre and counterculture that emerged in Washington, D.C. in 1991 to protest what many women judged as a patriarchal and shamelessly impudent punk...
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Binghamton needs more bike lanes
Ah, it’s that time of year again. While the groundhog may have said six more weeks of winter, it feels like spring is fast approaching. That means only one thing — biking...
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Kanye West's mental illness should be taken seriously
In a “Weekend Update’’ segment of “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 7, 2018, Pete Davidson described what life on the “Saturday Night Live” set was like when rapper Kanye West was the...
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Professors should not limit laptop use
This semester, two of my professors have instituted bans on using laptops or tablets to take notes. Binghamton University should ban this practice, as it results in an overreach of a professor’s...
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Reading assignments are dense and difficult
Lectures and textbook reading are the backbone to many universities nationwide. In college, textbook reading assignments can be found in a myriad of different disciplines. Completing the assignments may determine the success...
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Harm reduction is the most effective way to prevent drug overdoses
Over the long winter break, I came across an anti-drug advertisement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Usually, I would have skipped such an interruption to my Dark Souls...
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TRUST in Congress Act is unlikely to prohibit stock trading among politicians
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced this week that she had reversed her position on an effort that would prohibit lawmakers from trading stocks. This is a reversal of her previous position, under...