Opinion
Splendor over Sense: The Olympics as a Justifiable Expense for Notoriety
Even in a typical non-pandemic year, host cities pull out all the stops to cultivate an Olympic experience — and face enormous debt as a result. What, then, is the draw of such exorbitant spending in the eyes of host cities?
The Woman in Lane Five: Substances, Suspensions, and Sha’Carri
After a victory jog, Richardson hurried to embrace her grandmother on the sidelines, her face wracked with the emotions of a lifelong dream fulfilled. In a matter of days, that elation would be replaced with sorrow, remorse, and raw grief.
The Second Cold War?: The Way Forward for Southeast Asia
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong once commented that the region lives “at the intersection of the interests of various powers and must avoid being caught in the middle or forced into invidious choices.”
Part 4: The Snack That Smiles Back
You probably had a name for yours. Maybe it was “Fred” or the unironic “Goldie.” You took the car ride home to make plans: where Fred would live, how you would share all your meals together, and never spend a second apart.
Technology’s Possibilities and Pitfalls for Local Historical Societies
Many significant historical documents posted on the internet are stunningly ephemeral.
The Blight of the Binary
It’s no secret that American society has a rigid gender binary, one that valorizes masculinity and looks down upon femininity, one that rewards those who fit neatly into that binary and terrorizes those who don’t adhere to it, and one that reinforces the existing social, political, and economic power structures.
America’s Political Picasso: Hunter Biden
Biden will have to choose: to be a genuine artist or a political chess piece who happens to like watercolors.
The Anatomy of the Perpetual Petrodollar Machine
Saudi oil politics, tenuous alliances in the Middle East, and the erosion of the Bretton Woods system firmly ensnared the United States in the trap of the petrodollar. Can the U.S. escape before the climate crisis worsens?