Columns
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...
Staff Editorials
‘Just Breathe’ — a step in the right direction
Two Fridays ago, Just Breathe opened its doors as the first legal cannabis dispensary in New York outside of NYC. Owner Damien Cornwell, a local production studio owner and partner with the...
Columns
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...
Columns
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...
Columns
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...
Staff Editorials
Deepfakes pose a real threat
Over the past few years, there has been a massive increase in deepfake pornography, a new form of sexual harassment where the perpetrator is anonymous. Deepfakes are problematic in general, as they...
Columns
'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”...
Columns
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...
Sex Issue 2023
Diverse male contraception should be accessible
With the overturning of the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, attention has been turned toward improving contraceptives and their accessibility in the United States. No longer having abortion protected under the...
Columns
George Santos should be expelled
“It’s hard to understand the quantity and depth of the lies my new congressman has told” is a sentence that I never thought would be said, even euphemistically. I am from Syosset,...