Op-Eds
colorism
Becky with the good hair: Colorism and power in the Jewish community
I’m impatient with my community’s unwillingness to see just how many people are left behind in the rush to assimilate at all costs.
dining halls
Why dining halls should give Meatless Mondays a shot
Forgoing meat is a conscious and thoughtful choice that people make because they think that easing the burden on our earth is more important than satisfying their taste buds.
2020 Election
Early voting: Good idea, bad execution
People deserve a safe and relatively easy way to cast their ballots. Creating situations with limited locations and long lines is clearly not providing them that option.
Halloween
Embracing the ‘crazy ex-girlfriend’
Feelings don’t just disappear after a breakup, and there shouldn’t be a time limit on their acceptability.
body image
Other people’s bodies are none of your business
These are women whose adult bullying takes the form of “concern.”
ai
Disaster prevention lessons from AI
Leading AI experts say there’s a 5% chance that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, will cause a human extinction-level disaster.
Halloween
Morbid curiosity: What’s so interesting about true crime?
Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is obliged to stick to believable possibilities, and truth isn’t.
nobel prize
Nobel by blood
For a prize that’s considered to be the pinnacle of achievement in any field, there’s a conservative distribution among extremely similar looking people.
2020 Election
What’s in a euphemism?
Since Reagan, the American right wing has used euphemisms to disguise cruelty under nonsense phrases, shift public discourse, and couch unacceptable actions in a kind of abstract political mystique.
Anti-racism
URMC’s Anti-Racism Action Plan ignores health care’s discriminatory history
URMC has missed one of their best opportunities to come to terms with how they might be perpetuating medical racism.