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Real or cake, but now it’s … news? | Terms and Conditions

Real or cake, but now it’s … news? | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom September 19, 2025
According to the Pew Research Center, 54% of Americans report they consume at least some news from social media sources. These sources include anything from YouTube and Instagram, all the way to X and Truth Social. 
Error, error: bias detected | Data Driven

Error, error: bias detected | Data Driven

By Sarah Datta September 15, 2025

I can barely get through a conversation without talking about AI.  Whether it’s someone talking about it with an almost religious fanaticism or simply just using it for task planning and questions,...

The perverted ideology of ‘political violence’ | The Dissenting Opinion

The perverted ideology of ‘political violence’ | The Dissenting Opinion

By Lucio Maffei September 12, 2025
We have constructed a political discourse so detached from historical reality that we cannot acknowledge what every serious student of social change knows: Significant transformation has rarely occurred through purely peaceful means. 
Since when did less stop being more? | On the Record

Since when did less stop being more? | On the Record

By Addison Schmidt September 10, 2025
Albums are more interesting when listened to as the original release, without the changes and additions following its drop. Records are forever preserved in this form. They exist just as they were created. Finding a record in its original form on a streaming service today feels difficult, as if artists no longer feel the original album will satisfy their fans. 
Records are romantic | Terms and Conditions

Records are romantic | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom September 9, 2025

Type “record store near me” into your search engine of choice today, and you’ll probably find at least a few stores near you. If Google existed in the 1970s, the results may have looked almost identical....

Like Pitbull, I’m Mr. Worldwide | Con-Current Events

Like Pitbull, I’m Mr. Worldwide | Con-Current Events

By Frank Yang September 9, 2025

Spending over an entire month in East Asia really changes you.  I don’t mean in some deep, meaningful way. I think my English regressed a few levels, my pop culture knowledge has been replaced with...

How to beat the freshman fashion crisis | Geek Chic

How to beat the freshman fashion crisis | Geek Chic

By Anjola Odukoya June 6, 2025

I would be lying if I said the first day of school wasn’t something I secretly look forward to every year. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been addicted to the electric energy the first day brings...

'Pizzagate' and how social media has created a pandemic of misinformation | Terms and Conditions

‘Pizzagate’ and how social media has created a pandemic of misinformation | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom May 2, 2025

“Hillary Clinton and Democratic Party elites are harboring a child sex trafficking ring under Comet Ping Pong, a Washington, D.C. pizza shop.”  Or so said the internet. Emerging during the...

Sports and fashion can’t resist collaborating — at the expense of consumer wallets | Wear Me This

Sports and fashion can’t resist collaborating — at the expense of consumer wallets | Wear Me This

By Sujena Soumyanath April 30, 2025
The draft is functionally a chance for NFL teams to add eligible players to their rosters, but it also allows athletes to broadcast their personal brand.
Democracy dies in brightness | Con-Current Events

Democracy dies in brightness | Con-Current Events

By Frank Yang April 29, 2025

On the morning of April 17, a gunman opened fire on campus at Florida State University. As usual, the shooting terrorist — who killed two and injured six — was a white supremacist with a right-wing...

Superfine or Superficial? | Geek Chic

Superfine or Superficial? | Geek Chic

By Anjola Odukoya April 29, 2025

On the first Monday of every May, millions of citizens who are otherwise unconcerned with fashion become the biggest couch critics, dissecting Met Gala looks with the same scrutiny as seasoned pros.  This...

Heed this warning: Social media has a cost to our health | Terms and Conditions

Heed this warning: Social media has a cost to our health | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom April 24, 2025
When former President Joe Biden’s Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy held office, he made a daring proposal: Social media should be the next product slapped with a compulsory warning. “The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor,” Murthy wrote in an op-ed published by The New York Times in June.
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