Unlike a student in a normal year, I didn’t feel like I was going to college; I felt like I was going to school.
Denying medical care to LGBTQ+ patients poses a direct threat to their health, and it amounts to a brazen, unapologetic attack on their rights.
Last Wednesday’s events demonstrate the consequence of a dearth of civics education, whose absence will leave our nation frail and our democracy teetering at a precipice.
But last Wednesday, I watched in pain and disbelief as the President told white domestic terrorists that he loves them — the same President that claimed thousands of Muslim Americans cheered on September 11.
Another four years of President Trump and Republican leadership will simply be too much for our nation’s foundations to withstand, and it will put my generation’s futures in immense jeopardy.
We thought we were safe. People took their foot off the gas. And then the virus resurged with vengeance.
Let me be clear, Greeley — like the rest of the country — has a race issue. It manifests respectively in the school’s culture, curriculum, and administrative passiveness, as was seen in yesterday’s email.
Of course, it’s great to promulgate that we need to be anti-racist and that we stand with African Americans, but unfortunately, tackling racism isn’t that simple.
I hoped that a Ramadan spent in quarantine would allow me to establish some semblance of the devotion that many of my elders possess, but in a way that would comfortably correspond with my lifestyle as an American teenager.
As I’ve seen over the years, medicine requires an unwavering dedication to patient care and a balance between one’s duty as a physician and other priorities in life.
The puzzling duality lies in that our healthcare system will exacerbate this pandemic because it skyrockets costs, thus disincentivizing treatment and hampering containment.
Our government’s inadequate coronavirus response, therefore, is no surprise to me: it mirrors the principles that are currently dooming America’s healthcare system.
Other American industries will keep moving in the same direction as the ski industry until the human condition is placed before corporate greed.
If we want American society to mirror the image of the Founders and the haven sought after by immigrants from around the world, there must be greater equality in access to educational resources.
My experiences in Newburgh have made me hyper-aware of the injustices created by wealth inequality.
It’s hard to treat things the same when they simply aren’t.
It’s erroneous, therefore, to point to Jefferson as the resistor to a strong federal government when his policies as president required the exercise of executive power.
Imagine the feeling of feeling like nothing.
