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A beginner’s guide to new year’s, apathy, and the apocalypse

It’s time to settle the debate, and the results are in: TikTok is a better platform than Vine. Hear me out.

Content warning: mention of injury and death I’d like to bring us back to the fall of 2019. During this time, I was experiencing a classic case of midterm procrastination. My forays into online dating meant that the perfect way to spend my Thursday night was to go for drinks with an algorithmically compatible stranger.

I fundamentally believe that Rock Band is the single greatest bonding experience. Not convinced? I have a case study. My friend invited me up to her farm with a bunch of her friends for reading week. I was elated and prepared to have a fire week. However, I didn’t know everyone who would be in

For the fifteenth year in a row, global freedom declined in 2020, according to the American non-profit organization Freedom House. This democratic downturn was hastened by the COVID-19 pandemic, as autocrats ranging from Hungary’s Orbán Viktor to Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed abused their emergency powers to consolidate control over their countries. Democracy is under attack worldwide,

Norm Macdonald’s death this past September came out of nowhere. The 61-year-old comic, known for his time on Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, had been diagnosed with cancer nine years ago. Keeping the diagnosis under wraps made the announcement of his death all the more shocking––it was also an incredibly Norm Macdonald thing to

At the start of the pandemic, we saw the appearance of a peculiar type of character who has become symbolic of the political division and the misinformation of our time. This emergence has made some of our family gatherings awkward and unfortunate events. Many of us have had to block or unfollow certain people on

Unpacking the exorbitant textbook prices that haunt my parents’ pockets

Standing at the crossroads between film and race

How a seemingly uneventful summer revealed new things about myself, and how it will change the course of my academic career