by Justin Velarde | Jun 10, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
Again we have witnessed children get gunned down within the supposed safety of their own schools. At this point, we’ve all become used to this but this doesn’t make the pain of inaction any less frustrating for our country, but more importantly for the families who...
by Julia Battle | May 27, 2022 | Dartmouth College
Replacement theory, the white nationalist conspiracy that has been co-opted by the mainstream Right and espoused by mass murderers, is not uncommon in today’s political discourse. In particular, it has been used by right-wing populists, including Donald Trump, to...
by David Millman | May 27, 2022 | Dartmouth College
On March 8th, 2021, the New Hampshire state legislature tried to make me ineligible to run for office in my college town. That day, there was a hearing on HB362, a bill that would remove student housing as proof of domicile (i.e. where someone lives) in New Hampshire,...
by Lucas Aguayo-Garber | May 9, 2022 | Brown University
At the end of last month the Biden administration unveiled a new “Disinformation Board” within the Department of Homeland Security, aimed at attacking online “disinformation” as a national security threat in and of itself. Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has...
by Augustus Bayard | May 4, 2022 | Brown University
The rise of former U.S. President Donald Trump spawned a veritable cottage industry of books purported to offer confused Trump opponents insight into what his supporters were thinking. The New York Times lists as examples George Packer’s The Unwinding, Arlie Russell...