I swipe up. A pudgy boy— maybe 13— wearing a ball-cap, graphic tee, and athletic shorts, strolls into a Starbucks. “Do you guys have cakes?” he asks, outlining the shape of a cake with an exaggerated hand gesture. “Well you do now!” he exclaims before the employee has a chance to reply. In one rehearsed […]
Archives for October 2020
Amy Coney Barrett and The Legacy of State-Sanctioned Racism
The Supreme Court, supposedly sheltered from the brute forces of political power, is for many liberals a barometer for moral integrity that offers a vision of “universal harmony and justice brought about by reason and persuasion.” However, over the past few months of national reckoning and re-examining of American institutions, the Court has come under fire for perpetuating patterns of state-sanctioned racism that have shaped U.S. history for centuries. Throughout its long history, the Court has advanced progress in fits and starts, and has […]
Cartoon Comforts
It was a kindergarten ritual: every day, my older sister and I would race off the bus, run into the kitchen, and switch on the TV. After the long day of dealing with elementary school stresses of drawing five-point stars and writing complete sentences, we had certainly earned a brain break. We munched on our […]
Trump’s Infection Was Inevitable
The president’s minimization of Covid-19 led to the complacency which caught him the virus Perhaps the greatest surprise of Trump’s infection was that it took him over eight months since the first U.S. case of Covid-19 to contract the virus. He spent these months minimizing the pandemic, unrelenting even when it arrived at American shores. […]
The Life and Contributions of the Notorious RBG
In the evening hours of September 18, 2020, Americans’ hearts collectively dropped as the news came out: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court justice and feminist icon, had passed away in her home at age 87. At first, the story hit Twitter, then was picked up a few minutes later by every media outlet in the […]