Category: Opinions
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The Visible Flaws of Invisible Children
How the “Kony 2012” Video Oversimplifies a Complicated Conflict During my sophomore year of high school, a new English teacher decided to show a…
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Reflecting on the Presidential Elections in Senegal
How Musicians Mobilized a Movement to Defend Democracy One of the few African countries to never experience a coup d’etat, the Republic of Senegal…
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The Disconnect Between Police Officers & the Communities They’re Sworn to Protect
On February 2, officers from a New York Police Department street narcotics squad kicked down the door and raided the home of 18-year-old Ramarley…
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Compromising the Constitution: How political ploys are endangering our civil liberties
Last month, members of The New School community and a crowd of interested outsiders packed into Tishman Auditorium for a much-anticipated discussion between former…
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Recipe for Success: Sell yourself not your music
Once upon a time the music industry functioned according to a very specific set of rules. There was a structure for success. There was…
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Peril at Parsons: The dangers and defects of the fashion school’s new curriculum
“We are in class to learn skills, not to experiment and play. We are not paying to sit around and teach ourselves.” “We don’t…
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