Capitalism Failed Our Generation
Are you one of the many new first year students at the University of Massachusetts, or another college in the Pioneer Valley? If so, welcome! There is something I need to tell you, something college...
View ArticleThey say they earned it…
How much money do you deserve for your work? How much money do Wall Street executives deserve for what they do? How much money do workers in China deserve for making your iPod? Many of us are tempted...
View ArticleFacebook is no more than a phase
The Onion recently ran a satirical piece entitled “Every Potential 2040 President Already Unelectable Due to Facebook.” It was a joke, of course, intended to say that Facebook will change the way we...
View ArticlePeople over profit: The Socialist alternative
Editor’s note: This is part one of a three-part series by Mike Tudoreanu. My regular columns over the past month have, in a way, been part of a single long-running argument. Two weeks ago in my...
View ArticlePeople over profit: What is Socialism?
Flickr/401(K) 2012 “Socialism” is one of the most misused political terms in the world, especially in the United States. The second column of my three-part series on it was dedicated to addressing some...
View ArticleWhat would Jesus vote for?
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons One of the most shocking developments in recent American politics is the rise of a brand of Christian conservatism that embraces extreme free-market economic views....
View ArticleThe radical origins of International Women’s Day
Flickr/National Assembly for Wales Every year on March 8, the United Nations and many other countries around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. The event is generally presented as an...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day Special Issue
James Desjardin/Daily Collegian For International Women’s Day on March 8, the Daily Collegian‘s Op/Ed Staff organized a special issue to discuss women’s rights, feminism and women’s place in global...
View ArticleThe meaning of Easter
(Kirk McKoy/Los Angeles Times/MCT) American culture seems to have acquired what could be called a list of official consumer holidays. To find out which holiday is next, you only need to enter a...
View ArticleBending the arc
What was the world like in the year when you were born? No matter who you are and when you are reading this, chances are that some countries existed back then which no longer exist now, and some new...
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