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american politics
What’s actually happening with the U.S. vaccine stockpile
At the moment, in terms of sharing actual doses, the U.S. doesn’t have the necessary surplus to do so.
american politics
Fragments of an Asian identity
My mother was right. In America, we will always be seen as Asian first and as people second.
american politics
President Biden isn’t sleepy – he’s complicit
The only reason to be bored with Biden is if you don’t have to care about everything that’s still going wrong.
2020 Election
A country comes of age
Joe Biden is willing to listen to this country and do what it takes to fix it.
2020 Election
Pretty please will you get your lazy ass to the voting booth on Nov. 3?
To not vote is to give up what say — however small — you do have in our government.
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.
Alumni
PA Attorney General reflects on his time at UR
But after deciding against pre-med and getting cut from the basketball team, Shapiro decided to try out student government, spending his first year as a senator. That spring, “when they were taking nominations for president, I said ‘you know what, I love this school, I care deeply about these issues [...] I’ll give it a shot.’”
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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.
2020 Election
Absentee voting matters
If you’re eligible, you can participate in something larger than yourself.
american politics
A tale of two cities
Rochester champions people who fought for the less fortunate, and perhaps that makes it more able to accept that things need to change, rather than simply looking the other way.