Opinion
Centering the Voices of Refugees
According to writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, popular narratives fail to capture these salient aspects of refugees’ lives. Instead, refugees stories’ are “invisible” until they are “hypervisible…forgotten by those who are not refugees until they turn into a menace.”
The Brain Gain
Shelled by the coronavirus and priced out of their apartments, residents are leaving the city in record numbers. But could the exodus save small towns?
61 Million: On Disability Justice
Disability rights are human and civil rights deeply intertwined with nearly every aspect of society. Even with 30 years of the ADA, those with disabilities often are denied and deprived of the access, rights, and freedoms that they have been promised.
What COVID-19 Teaches Us About the Future of Environmentalism
By overcoming the adversity brought forth by coronavirus, environmental activism will become stronger. It will not only expand its reach to more platforms, virtual and physical, but also to more people from diverse ages and backgrounds.
To Be an American: Exploring Patriotism in the Face of Injustice
Now more than ever, being patriotic entails accountability on various levels ranging from individual actions to established institutions. Our right to criticize our country remains one of our most crucial.
The Personal Price of “Systemic” Healthcare Inequality
Shallow attempts at cultural sensitivity might appear to encourage diversity, but in truth, they erase the true diversity that occurs within—not between—different racial, ethnic, and religious groups.
American Dreams: Immigrant America Before and After the Pandemic
There’s no justification as potent as a pandemic for xenophobic policies and politicians.
Our Extraterrestrial Military Space Power
It would be naive to imagine that space will continue to be a solely cooperative environment, as that has never been true as long as humans have had access to space.