Words for what we had
I have no words for a world where Donald Trump won. I don’t have the words to explain how a man who hates so vigorously, who so blatantly admits to cruelty and who disregards the humanity of so many...
View ArticleIndia’s demonetization and the future
When I woke up on Nov. 8, I had a message from my mother — it was a link to an article about how to exchange Indian currency notes now that the Rs. 500 and Rs.1000 notes were no longer legal tender. I...
View ArticleAmerican dreaming
Watching President Obama give his farewell address speech on Jan. 10 in Chicago, I remembered something. I have a problem with Obama. I want to follow that sentence immediately with the clarification...
View ArticleWatching Trump
Over the last week, President Trump has expectedly dominated headlines. But beyond reports about his inauguration turnout, the subsequent lie told by his press secretary Sean Spicer and the media’s...
View ArticleThe politics of distance
It’s another day and another avalanche of news about the White House. There are reports about Trump’s vacationing, about Milo Yiannopoulos (doesn’t Breitbart now count as White House-related?) and...
View ArticleOn compassion and security
There’s been an avalanche of thinkpieces from the left about the immigration ban – and I think they’re great because they make valid arguments, and none of those arguments are insignificant. It bears...
View ArticleThe divided states of America
Being on campus, it’s sometimes easy to forget that we live in a world in which Donald Trump is the President of the United States. When my parents call me to ask me if I feel unsafe after the recent...
View ArticleRape anxiety
It was a Friday night, and we were playing Codenames in the lounge — it was our first week back, and goofing off isn’t the same when it’s not facilitated by an RA. Everyone was avoiding some p-set or...
View ArticleCampus activism on Netflix
Last week, I spent a good portion of the time I should have spent studying binge watching Netflix’s new show “Dear White People.” And I really enjoyed it — despite there being several valid complaints...
View ArticleCovfefe meets Paris
Yesterday I woke up to two major Trump stories of the day: the fact that the president had seemingly accidentally tweeted out a half thought ending in “covfefe” only to delete it six hours later and...
View ArticleNew beginnings and old mistakes
Every year, I imagine what it’ll be like to arrive on campus — to be starting the new year. Memorial Church emerging from behind the palm trees, seeing the sun shine on Hoover Tower, running up to my...
View ArticlePuerto Rico and tech plutocracies
When there are disasters, there are calls for action. And often, we look towards those with power and, almost synonymously, to those with wealth, to step in and help those left in such a scary...
View ArticleThe echoes of #MeToo
The argument that social media activism is just slacktivism has been made one too many times. Every time there’s a new movement, a new hashtag — with it comes the slew of articles calling social media...
View ArticleA new tax plan and an old conversation
On Thursday, as we were stumbling out of midterms or watching a great movie (thank you Cardinal Nights!), House Republicans unveiled their broad tax overhaul plan. As reported in AP News, it’s a plan...
View ArticleNet neutrality: More than just fast lanes
If you haven’t been hit by major 2014 nostalgia recently, it’s because you either missed the headlines then, or you have given up reading the news now. Because yet again, net neutrality is the trending...
View ArticleSystem failure report
When I first started watching Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special, I was struck by his comment that women who had quit their comedy careers because Louis C.K. masturbated in front of them had “brittle...
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