Why America’s brightest are culturally shifting to the private sector
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Society
How NYU Is Gentrifying Brooklyn and What We Can Do to Fight Back
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Kern self portrait, courtesy of Kern.
Pharmaceuticals and the Politics of Confrontation: An Interview with Richard Kern.
in Interviews, Society, Culture
Richard Kern’s photography are confrontational and many escape any didactic interpretation. They reveal an underbelly of darkness and many times the reflection turns inward; an audience member must confront questions of representation, perversion, and beauty are all confronted. In December 2020, he published his most recent book, Medicated, a collection of photographs and interviews compiled over the course of 10 years, inspecting the relationship between young women and prescription drug use. I sat down with Richard Kern and talked to him about it.
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Tracing the roots of laïcité to contextualize France’s cultural perception of racism
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Read MoreThe Danger of Big Data
in Politics, Society, Technology
How and Why it Undermines our Democratic Values
Read MoreGlobal Vaccine Distribution I: Vaccine Nationalism
in Foreign Policy, Society, Politics, COVID
Why vaccine nationalism puts us all at risk
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What Thoreau reminds us about American democracy
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How the Pandemic has Crystalized the America’s Desperate Housing Situation
Read MoreUnderstanding the Mueller Investigation With Professor Jeremy Levine
in Foreign Policy, Interviews, Law, Politics, Society
This article was written with input from Professor Jeremy Levine, who is currently teaching a course titled “From Russia with Love? The Mueller Investigation and the Transformation of American Politics.”
Read MoreAuthorizing Ableism
in Economics, Foreign Policy, Politics, Society, U.S.
How Trump’s Changes to Public Charge Continue the History of Discrimination Against the Disabled in the United States
Read MoreThe Politics of The Highest Place on Earth
Everest’s deadly 2019 season, which took the lives of 11 climbers, captured the world’s attention this summer. The winding path of climbers leading up to the summit resembled a New York City traffic jam. These deaths, though, are just the newest symptom of the political, environmental, and racial issues that have long plagued the highest place on earth.
Read MoreThe Impact of the Supreme Court on LGBTQ Americans and Employment Discrimination.
Justice Neil Gorsuch may be the deciding vote in three upcoming Supreme Court cases that will drastically impact the rights of LGBTQ Americans across the United States.
Read MoreNew York Baltic Film Festival: Community Reflections on Democratization
30 years after the Baltic Way, a joint protest against Soviet Occupation that spanned three countries, the Baltic Film Festival explores the legacies of democratization, as well as the multi-dimensional nature of the Baltic Diaspora.
Read MoreThe Untold Epidemic of Violence Against Indigenous Women
Indigenous women face the highest rates of violence and sexual assault of any group in the nation. Yet there is little dialogue to combat this violence, and Indigenous families are resigned to the unknown fate of their missing and murdered loved ones.
Read MoreThe Looming Fight Against Superbugs
Why antibiotic resistant bacteria is quickly becoming a global health threat and how healthcare policies in the US need to change in response.
Read MoreTo Kill a King
What the Canadian SNC-Lavalin affair can tell us about removing world leaders from power.
Read MoreHow Religious Extremism Taints Holy Months
Religious extremists are distorting the meaning of the holy months. Understanding how could help stop this.
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