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Think before you add to cart
Makeup, skin care and clothing marketing runs rampant on social media platforms through sponsorships, partnerships and product placement. With many consumers trashing, donating or selling their hoards once the inflated value of...
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The power of staying open
Humans hold an emotional and physical presence, constantly evolving as we experiment and engage with different routines, activities and habits. This process merits continual growth, which can become difficult to manage and...
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Electronic voting is not the future
Technology has changed many aspects of elections in the last several decades. Components of a democratic system, like campaigning, polling and policymaking, rely more than ever on the effective use of social...
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Objective on paper, biased in practice
As you may have read in my previous column, I explained how gymnastics uses technical terms like “aesthetic” to hide its exclusionary nature and create body hierarchies. Businesses and organizations operate on...
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Is football worth your life?
Since watching the 2015 film “Concussion” in my 11th-grade psychology class, I have been fascinated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a degenerative brain disease common among football players caused by repeated...
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TikTok's scary new look
Last January, one of the world’s most popular apps, TikTok, went dark in the United States for about 14 hours. Users frantically searched for alternatives and VPNs to get around the entertainment...
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Normalize loving out loud
I love love. From physical touch to gift giving and words of affirmation, all the forms of love language are ones that I speak fluently — and that love is not reserved...
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Trump is destroying America’s global standing
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the strong alliance between the United States and Europe — based on shared principles of democracy and a free market — seemed to promise unprecedented...
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Abolishing ICE is a bipartisan issue
Our nation has recently been rocked by the horrific events occurring in Minneapolis, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “largest immigration operation ever” turned into tragedy as two U.S. citizens, Renée Good and...
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We saw it happen. Why are we still arguing?
On Jan. 24, through the glow of our phone screens, we were again forced to witness a federal immigration agent fatally shoot a civilian. The victim, American citizen and ICU nurse Alex...
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Sexual violence has no place in video games
Content warning: This column discusses depictions of sexual violence. The horror genre has evolved over the years, continuously taking its concepts further than we expect. Alfred Hitchcock revolutionized shock horror with his...
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The Long Peace is a false idea
When writing history, deciding how things are named is important. People may sometimes overlook this aspect, but the way a period, an ideology or a phenomenon is dubbed can shape our consciousness...