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Harvard Student Whose Father Escaped Communism Has a Message for Her Fellow Students 0
- Education
- December 5, 2017
Laura M. Nicolae has a message for her fellow students at Harvard: think twice before embracing communism. Nicolae, an applied mathematics major in the ’20 class, recently shared in the Crimson the story of how her father arrived in the United States. And it’s harrowing stuff: “In 1988, my twenty-six-year-old father jumped off a train
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Bud Light’s ‘Dilly Dilly’ Commercial is Ingenious 0
- Entertainment
- December 5, 2017
Sometimes a commercial appears that both shatters a paradigm and creates a popular meme that truly sticks. The genius is undeniable but extremely hard to manufacture from a formula. It just works. Think of “I’d like to teach the world to sing,” “Where’s the beef?”, “Mikey likes it!”, and “Do you have any Grey Poupon?”
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New Hippocratic Oath Calls on Physicians to Respect ‘Autonomy and Dignity’ of Trans Patients 0
- Culture
- December 5, 2017
The World Medical Association (WMA) General Assembly recently approved revisions to the Declaration of Geneva, the modern physician’s pledge that succeeded the Hippocratic Oath. The revisions, the most expansive makeover of the declaration in its 70-year history, followed two years of information gathering, interviews with medical experts, and internal deliberations. Among the changes the WMA
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Why England’s Reading Scores Are Soaring While the U.S. Lags Behind 0
- Education
- December 5, 2017
There’s been increasing alarm in recent years as many Americans have realized that their children don’t know much in the areas of history, civics, geography, and writing. In retrospect, it appears that the emphasis placed on the core subjects of reading and math by various education laws such as No Child Left Behind may be
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Why Aren’t There More Female Politicians?0
- Politics
- December 5, 2017
In a country that began with actual “Founding Fathers,” it’s easy to buy into the mantra that the patriarchy is a dominant force in American society and thus needs to be minimized. Many feminists now believe women have been oppressed for too long, and it’s time for them to fight back. Consider a recent tweet
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Latest Millennial Dream Job? Farming 2
- Culture
- December 4, 2017
On Thanksgiving Day, while America ate its biggest, most famous meal of the year, The Washington Post wrote about something for which everyone ought to be thankful: more millennials are taking up farming. That’s right: For the first time in a long time, a growing number of young Americans are ditching cities and desk jobs
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