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What Can A Ballot Do: Investigating Just How Much Voting Actually Accomplishes
There's a limit to what can be expressed through the voting process, but civic engagement doesn't end on Election Day.
by PEARL LIU
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The Hidden Effects of the Garment Industry on Uyghurs
Our world is plagued by blind consumerism. Let's combat it.
by ESTHER LEE
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Unpacking Kashmir, the Hidden Genocide
India's occupation is depriving the region of resources, autonomy, and history.
by REMA BHAT
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What Do Kylie Jenner and Belle Delphine Have in Common?
White mimesis of ethnic features and cultural appropriation reifies the hyper–sexualization of women of color.
by REMA BHAT
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The State of the Arts at Penn: Why Do We Value STEM and Wharton More?
Debunking the myth that studying business is more practical than art history.
by AAKRUTI GANESHAN
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Why are we so obsessed with celebrities' bodies?
Billie Eilish's body shouldn't matter. Neither should Lizzo's, Kanye's, or anyone's, really.
by TREASURE BROWN
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Examining the ‘Skinny or Fashionable’ Trend
Social media users are calling out thin privilege online.
by SARIKA RAU
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Indigenous Communities Have Been Disproportionately Affected by COVID–19
How America is dangerously repeating its dark history of neglect and ignorance.
by JULIA ESPOSITO
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Dear Penn: Your “Messages” to the Penn Community Aren’t Enough
Penn once again gives their condolences, but fails to address their role in the problem.
by HANNAH YUSUF
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Behind the Hidden Politics of the Nobel Prize
Unpacking Louise Glück's recent honor and the uncertain future of a literary Nobel.
by ANDREW BASILE
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Our Bodies are just Bodies
By celebrating what our bodies do over what they look like, body neutrality presents a cure to our image–obsessed culture.
by REMA BHAT
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Presidential Debates Have Lost Their Worth
Why these events must detach from their current state of pure entertainment.
by JESSICA XU
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The Politics of 'Papers, Please': Border Control and Biological Essentialism
Lucas Pope’s 2013 release is an empathy game with the typical messy moralities of video games.
by KATHRYN XU
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The Gentrification of Fashion: Re–Selling on Depop
Price–gouging and fast–fashion shaming render sustainability exclusive.
by REMA BHAT
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Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia—But You Still Need to Vote.
Despite Trump's claims of corrupt mail–in ballots, you should vote.
by JULIA ESPOSITO
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Our Altered Relationship with Time
What happens when pandemic time meets the Penn semester calendar?
by PEARL LIU
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Penn Debate Society Evaluates the First Presidential Debate
Both candidates have strong ties to Penn, but would they have made the debate team?
by KIRA WANG
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Hello Kitty ACAB: The Aestheticization of Politics
"Woke" memes aren't the flex you think they are.
by REMA BHAT
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An Open Letter to 'Saturday Night Live': Don't Joke About the Debate
Because it's just not funny anymore.
by JULIA POLSTER
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