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12 Strangers: Putting Lives into Seemingly Unbiased Hands
You know that guy I saw on the street yesterday? Yeah, he was really attractive, though, he was being escorted by the police. And the girl next to him? Drop dead gorgeous. She was really sobbing while getting the handcuffs fastened around her hands. She even cries pretty! Either way, whatever they did couldn’t be that bad, right? We all possess a bias for something. Or someone. Your cat, your parents, or someone you found attractive on the street. We like to believe justice i
Adesuwa A.
Aug 223 min read
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12 Strangers: Putting Lives into Seemingly Unbiased Hands
You know that guy I saw on the street yesterday? Yeah, he was really attractive, though, he was being escorted by the police. And the girl next to him? Drop dead gorgeous. She was really sobbing while getting the handcuffs fastened around her hands. She even cries pretty! Either way, whatever they did couldn’t be that bad, right? We all possess a bias for something. Or someone. Your cat, your parents, or someone you found attractive on the street. We like to believe justice i
Adesuwa A.
Aug 223 min read
Public Grocery Stores, The Route To Affordability
Second-year Mayor Zohran Mamdani is forging ahead with his ambitious municipal grocery store initiative, a bold $70 million plan designed to guarantee a 30% discount on essential household groceries. This policy delivers directly on a key campaign promise Mamdani made in late 2024 following a staggering post-pandemic surge in food costs that hit working-class families across New York City hardest. Speaking on the profound human impact of sustained food inflation, Mayor Mamda
EJ Simmons
Aug 223 min read
Fauci Pleads the Fifth
Dr. Anthony Fauci is one of the most esteemed and well-known figures in the field of public health. Following his time as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, chief medical advisor to President Biden, and as a crucial responder during the HIV/AIDs crisis in the later part of the twentieth century; he is attending a senate hearing. So, how did it get to the point of his career where at a senate hearing, being questioned about the COVID-19
Saanvi Hitlamani
Aug 223 min read
Your City & Climate Change
Climate change has had lasting effects on countries, communities, people and every organism that walks the Earth. In California, the effects have been particularly devastating; a coastal state already affected heavily by wildfires, drought and unhoused populations gets deeply impacted by the increased temperatures and rising sea levels. In my home town of San Jose, all of these issues are strongly evident, with several policies being established to protect the people of the c
Saanvi Hitlamani
Aug 63 min read
A Final Breath: Inside of the Modern Death Penalty
The person walking into the chamber knows they are taking their final breaths. They ponder what went wrong, what went right, and if whatever they did was worth a grave written with a pre-scheduled date. As they take their last looks at the world, they realize what a fatal mistake they’ve made. Image via Rama Krushna Behera / Unsplash Capital punishment, better known as the death penalty, is the execution of an offender after being convicted of a criminal offense by a court of
Adesuwa A.
Aug 54 min read
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