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Archives for October 2020

Tik Tok: What Your ‘fyp’ Is Saying About You

Written by: Bobby Murray '23
Published on: October 28, 2020

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 […]

Categories: TechnologyTags: TikTok

Amy Coney Barrett and The Legacy of State-Sanctioned Racism

Written by: Lauren Katz
Published on: October 26, 2020

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 […]

Categories: United StatesTags: Supreme Court

Cartoon Comforts

Written by: Charlie Galicich '24
Published on: October 25, 2020

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 […]

Categories: TelevisionTags: Cartoons

Trump’s Infection Was Inevitable

Written by: Joanne Du
Published on: October 21, 2020

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. […]

Categories: Features, United StatesTags: COVID-19

The Life and Contributions of the Notorious RBG

Written by: Lucy Siegel
Published on: October 4, 2020

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 […]

Categories: United StatesTags: Supreme Court

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