As I go forward into the world outside of this little bubble, I want to leave everyone with a few words of advice, a few last opinions before I leave campus and this column for good. The post C...
Alleging that certain things are apolitical is harmful because it allows us to think about bad things that happen in the world as misfortune, instead of as injustice, which forces us to search fo...
In fact, having some of these speakers on campus can actually harm our educations. By creating a space that allows for the alt-right to speak freely without adequate critique, those hosting the s...
By holding South Africa accountable for letting al-Bashir go, the ICC can set a precedent of going after those who are complicit in atrocities. The post South Africa and the ICC appeared first...
https://stanforddaily.com/2017/04/10/south-africa-and-the-icc/
It may be very easy to sit back and say something to the effect of “oh, aren’t all these natural disasters horrible.” While it is true that the situation is not good and we should feel empa...
The fact that there has been a resurgence of xenophobic violence in South Africa as of late ought to deeply trouble us all. The post Xenophobic attack in South Africa appeared first on The Sta...
https://stanforddaily.com/2017/02/27/xenophobic-attack-in-south-africa/
In order to learn how such change making might be possible, we must read more and read more kinds of texts, and we should certainly be prioritizing all kinds of fiction. The post Books to read ...
https://stanforddaily.com/2017/02/24/the-importance-of-fiction/
In response to these conservative movements, though, protests are also cropping up all around the world. The post The power of protest and collective action appeared first on The Stanford Dail...
https://stanforddaily.com/2017/02/13/the-power-of-protest-and-collective-action/
As we focus on the disaster that is the current American political system, other kinds of disasters are happening unnoticed in other parts of the world. In Chile, for example, wildfires are runni...
The political situation in The Gambia has been especially tense ever since the most recent elections: the current president, Yahya Jammeh, who has held office for over two decades, lost to the op...
https://stanforddaily.com/2017/01/17/the-gambia-an-unfolding-political-climate-to-watch/
Over the past several weeks, government-sanctioned violence against Rohingya Muslims, a minority group in Myanmar, has risen to levels where many people are worried about the situation soon amoun...
Last spring, the students who frequent the Center for African Studies received some horrible news. CAS, as we all fondly call the Center, is going to be moved, not once, but twice in the upcoming...
https://stanforddaily.com/2016/11/14/dont-put-the-africans-in-the-basement/
While there are some really nice things about having that kind of “silo-ization,” it can also be pretty destructive. This is why, for the sake of self-care and producing better work, I’m co...
https://stanforddaily.com/2016/10/31/the-importance-of-integrated-intellectualism/
While understanding that President Santos’s desire to bring peace to the world and his efforts to get the accord passed are important and ought to be lauded, it remains unclear whether he ought...
https://stanforddaily.com/2016/10/17/me-mg-peace-prize-politics/
People who have been reading this column for a while know that I try to write on subjects that “burst the bubble” of Stanford. This campus (and the information circulating in it) can make a s...
Two weeks ago, I gave a group policy presentation in a class regarding housing problems in the Bay Area and a potential fix for the gentrification crisis, specifically in Oakland. One of the fina...
https://stanforddaily.com/2016/02/21/the-potentials-of-a-humanist-education/
During the International Syria Support Group’s (ISSG’s) meeting on Thursday, proxy parties, including the U.S. and Russia, decided to agree upon a ceasefire, or, as they termed it more speci...
https://stanforddaily.com/2016/02/15/were-not-talking-about-syria-and-we-should-be/
Last week, a sperm whale washed up and died on a beach in Hunstanton, England. This might not be such a huge deal, were it not for the fact that in the past month or so, a total of thirty sperm w...
Earlier last week, Denmark’s parliament passed measures allowing refugees to come into the country for a time. These measures, meant to deter refugees from seeking asylum or longer-term habita...
https://stanforddaily.com/2016/02/01/more-assaults-on-refugees/
I’m currently a senior here at Stanford. And I am a classic Stanford kid in that I tend to take on too many things each quarter, including, but certainly not limited to, units. Despite this fac...
https://stanforddaily.com/2016/01/25/a-need-for-more-diverse-texts-in-humanistic-disciplines/
It has recently been announced that the Bing Overseas Study Program in Florence will be lifting the language requirement for next quarter. Read in a particular way, this seems like it could be a ...
https://stanforddaily.com/2016/01/10/the-death-of-cultural-exchange-in-study-abroad/
In the past several weeks, there have been an increasing number of conversations about the situation surrounding refugees in the E.U. There have also been conversations about how both the U.S. an...
https://stanforddaily.com/2016/01/03/facing-the-refugee-problem/
I will be soberly celebrating his memory today. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an amazing man, who did amazing things for this country and challenged all Americans to work towards the ideal of a ...
https://stanforddaily.com/2016/01/01/dont-wish-me-a-happy-martin-luther-king-day-today/
In spite of the fact that this may sound very similar to last year, I’ve decided to write this column anyway, because this time, not only I have more nuanced arguments and more precise critique...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/11/30/we-need-to-have-more-equitable-responses-to-violence/
For those of you who have been living under a rock or not accessing social media lately for whatever reason, racial tensions have been building at Mizzou for some time now. There have been many a...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/11/15/a-few-thoughts-on-events-at-mizzou/
Amazon released two major announcements last week wherein they increased the number of weeks that new mothers can take for maternity leave (yes!), gave new fathers the ability to take paternity l...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/11/08/the-impending-death-of-the-bricks-and-mortar-bookstore/
Usually, it’s easy for me as a radical leftist (I know, you’re all shocked to finally discover where my political leanings lie) to look at the Republican Party and its frontrunners of this up...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/11/01/how-to-really-be-an-everlasting-gop-stopper/
According to an article published a few weeks ago, Facebook is about to increase internet connectivity around the world by partnering with a French satellite company, Eutelsat, to provide broadba...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/10/26/thanks-facebook-but-youll-probably-hurt-more-than-you-help/
Oppression fundamentally changes all social institutions eliminates all prospects of a “universal human experience.” It is fundamentally impossible for two people to interact without historie...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/10/18/me-kk-enough-of-shakespeare/
Clearly, we don’t do too well when we intervene militarily in the affairs of other countries unprompted, with pretty much the worst track record of military interventions one could imagine. And...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/10/12/me-kk-an-argument-for-non-intervention/
According to The New York Times, the police department in Kansas City, Missouri is in the process of implementing a new program. Good, right, since we have seen, especially over the past year, th...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/10/05/me-kk-police-department-reform-but-in-the-wrong-direction/
Two weeks ago, an outbreak of measles started in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Over 400 people have died, and more than 23,000 are infected. That’s a lot of ...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/09/28/me-kk-a-responsibility-to-pursue-information-actively/
The attention (or rather, lack thereof) that the media has given people fleeing countries for various reasons (political, economic, and social), trying to come to Europe has been largely nonexist...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/09/20/europes-migrant-crisis/
His situation, especially in the context of a relatively new Israeli law that allows force feeding hunger-strikers, raises lots of questions about whether there are situations in which state forc...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/09/16/the-case-against-force-feeding/
It’s time to call all of these hate acts against people of color what they are: acts of terrorism. We must stop tiptoeing around this word, terrorism, which makes us uncomfortable, because the ...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/07/31/dear-white-people-please-call-it-like-it-is/
Posting from a place of anonymity doesn’t make your thoughts valid or true. And if you’re not careful about what you’re writing, you can seriously hurt some people. The post An open lette...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/05/26/an-open-letter-to-anonymous-opinions-sit-your-ass-down/
When something of this nature comes up, something that poses to wreak havoc on the environment and compound the disadvantages of countries that are already economically marginalized, we have a re...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/05/19/beware-of-the-international-monopoly/
The university community should still feel it imperative to provide our artists with more space, and then act on that imperative. We need to build performance halls and studios to better serve th...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/05/12/lets-put-that-construction-to-better-use/
Obama has revolutionized presidential outreach. He is the first president to make so many active efforts to connect to young voters through different platforms. One of his most effective methods ...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/05/05/a-promising-comedy-career/
We need creative negotiation, but with more effective language in discussion of the deal. And we need to do so in a way that demonstrates a balance of power. The post On tactful and tactical ne...
https://stanforddaily.com/2015/04/28/on-tactful-and-tactical-negotiations/