Is there a corporate case for health care?
Jonathan Oberlander wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that a Medicare for All healthcare proposal would generate “fierce resistance from conservatives and the business community.”...
Category: Commentary
On Shahmir Sanni and being outed against your will
In 2016, Shahmir Sanni volunteered with the Vote Leave campaign, which was aiming to convince British voters to leave the European Union. He was unusual amongst his university peers for being a...
AAPI Women in History: Dr. Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla was born into a culture that didn’t necessarily share the big plans she had for herself. Born in Karnal, India in 1961, the youngest of four, a future as wife and mother was expected...
#WednesdayWisdom: Climate change and other things that are fake
In the life of every individual, a certain maturing must eventually take place. We learn that Santa Claus is not real. We come to terms with the fact The Republican Idea Of Personal Responsibility...
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: delete your account?
The thing about companies like Facebook and Google is that data gathering is a feature, not a bug. It’s how they make their living – by offering highly targeted advertising options based on the...
AAPI Women in History: Victoria Manalo Draves
Filipino-Americans have often been called the “invisible minority”. Despite being the second largest Asian-American community in America – and the first Asians to come to America in 1587 –...
Why Mattel’s Frida Kahlo Barbie Snafu is an Early Contender For 2018’s Worst Corporate Gaffe
Surrealist Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s image has been emblazoned on many things: t-shirts, tote bags, jewelry, magnets — even makeup and tequila. The product description for one dress even calls...
Black Panther takes the conversation about beauty standards to a new level
Often, when people discuss “unconventional beauty”, they're discussing unpopular features like, say, close set eyes or big noses. The problem usually goes a bit deeper than that, though. I don't...
Learn to speak English, why don’t you?
Sajid Javid, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has revealed that census data suggests that 770,000 people living in England...
AAPI (Ghost) Women in History: The Angry Dead Women of Asia
Once upon a time, mukashi mukashi, there lived a beautiful woman in Yotsuya named Oiwa. A ronin (a masterless samurai) named Iemon wanted to marry Oiwa, but her father knew of Iemon’s misdeeds and...