Opinion

Black Lives Matter. One might see such a statement as uncontroversial. People’s lives matter. Black people are people. Therefore Black Lives Matter. It’s the simplest kind of argument you could make — a deduction following from two premises. And yet, the American justice system routinely devalues Black lives. Black

I accepted this job during a sweaty summer in 2019 when I was interning for a magazine in New York. Something about this incessant, unresolved question of whether to take the offer or not clicked into place one day, and I carefully typed out sentences into the text bubble on

Dear President Martin and Board of Trustees, It is past time to divest from fossil fuels and the prison-industrial complex. We write to you on the eve of Amherst’s bicentennial, in a year that has brought continued police violence, a global pandemic, unprecedented wildfires, and the most hurricanes

At a certain point in each semester, my days become brighter and lighter. I find that I suddenly have an extraordinary amount of time on my hands — time to watch Netflix, do my long-neglected hobbies, and maybe even get around to taking care of myself. Yes, I’m talking

Western media coverage of the Nagorno-Karabakh War has often portrayed Azerbaijan in a negative light, relying on Western fears of Islamic terrorism and distrust of Turkey to paint a black-and-white image of the conflict, with Azerbaijan in the wrong and Armenia in the right. As an Azerbaijani

I remember the first time I ever heard the name“Donald Trump.” I was in eighth grade and it was October 2015. I came home from school to hear my mom talking about this guy who was running for president and saying all these crazy things. Neither of us knew,