This article was co-written by Miroslav Bergam, Lucy Ding, Erin Guetzloe, Kodi Obika, Dominic Skinnion, Yao Yu, and Amy Zhou. Introduction With election night quickly approaching and the threat of COVID-19 presenting a compelling case for facilitating mail-in voting and allowing for delayed results, many are looking to polling data and election forecasts as a means of … Read more
As Californians return their mail-in ballots, some of Silicon Valley’s largest tech companies have bombarded voters’ social media accounts, text messages and TV stations with a simple message: vote “yes” on Proposition 22. The ballot initiative, written by a consortium of app-based companies, has ignited a nationwide debate on the future of work. If passed, … Read more
On August 12, 2020, the Minnesota Legislature convened in a special session to vote on whether to extend the state of emergency declared by Gov. Tim Walz in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Minnesota House of Representatives, controlled by Walz’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (Minnesota’s Democratic affiliate party), rejected a resolution ending the emergency, while the … Read more
Since starting Harvard, I feel as though being from the Bay Area has become an annoyingly significant part of my personality. Whether they ask or not, I feel compelled to divulge this fact to almost every new individual I meet, as if I’m explaining and justifying my strange reaction to my surroundings. As I’ve come … Read more
On April 18, 2017, President Trump signed the Buy American and Hire American executive order with the stated goal of safeguarding American jobs. Since the pandemic, the Trump administration, Department of Homeland Security, and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services have been repeatedly using the most harmful versions of xenophobic, “immigrants steal jobs” rhetoric to … Read more
Charles W. Mills is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Born in the U.K. and raised in Jamaica, he is a leading thinker in social and political philosophy as it centers on class, gender, and race. His first book, “The Racial Contract,” introduces the titular concept: a … Read more
Organ harvests, forced sterilization of women, psychological torture, and forced family separations—the hallmarks of the Xinjiang region in China. Uyghur Muslims live in fear in Xinjiang as the Chinese government continues to wage war on their culture, with its elimination as the goal. Many are subjected to “re-education” camps, a euphemism for an exploitative labor … Read more
In the biggest legal challenge to the technology industry in decades, the Department of Justice and 11 state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on October 20, arguing that the company holds an illegal monopoly over search and advertising and citing its contracts with Apple as a deterrent against innovation and competition. This … Read more
“Here is a memo to the clueless baptized Catholics out there: you cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat. Period … repent of your support of that party and its platform or face the fires of Hell.” This was the message of Father James Altman, a priest of Wisconsin’s St. James the Less Catholic Church, … Read more
In December of 2008, Tennessee’s Emory River turned black. It was clogged with an estimated 300 million gallons of sludge after a dam failed at the nearby Kingston Fossil Plant and sent a slurry of coal ash and water surging into the river valley. Coal ash, a byproduct churned out by coal-fired power plants, is … Read more