Archive for the ‘Ownership’ Category

Why Wal-Mart? By Stephen Burke It is not difficult to write an article about how terrible Wal-Mart is. The body of research on the subject is astounding. Their labor practices and environmental policies are well documented. In 2008, a Minnesota judge ruled that the company had violated worker’s rights more than 2 million times over [...]

Deciding the nuclear haves and have-nots By Shaza Elsheshtawy Nuclear weapons are the single most powerful, devastating, and authoritative artillery a country can possess. In a word, they’re potent—both physically and politically. Only nine countries worldwide are in possession of nuclear weapons, which constructs a great imbalance of power between the haves and have-nots of this [...]

The history of a struggle for national identity

By Gena Mangiaratti
Kurdistan is a country. Kurdistan is a virtual state. Kurdistan is a bad country. Kurdistan is an illegal country.

“I usually say I’m from southern Kurdistan, which of course, politically correct, would be northern Iraq,” Dabagh said. “However, if the person asking doesn’t seem open-minded and generally educated, I prefer not to get in a conflict and, therefore, tell them that I’m a Kurd from Iraq.”

By Simi Landau Lindisfarne We call it Lindisfarne because we are the only ones who still know what that means. We are like them, the monks copying manuscripts of old, or anyway we try to be. None of us are monks, of course—this time, like the last, some of the clergy were even in on [...]

Gun ownership and civil liberties By Gena Mangiaratti As I pointed the gun down range, trying to exact the position of the bright red dot on the bull’s eye, I was hesitant to pull the trigger, even if it was just at a paper target 20 feet away. The first time I pulled the trigger, [...]

If you have anything to do with the Park School, you’ve noticed the slew of new flat screen TVs that showed up in the hallway over spring break. You can’t move five steps inside the building without running into a different, yet identical, expensive-looking TV hung overhead. Frankly, we wonder what was wrong with the [...]

      Paying the bills in post-Katrina New Orleans By Lyndsey Lyman Sixty-seven-year-old Audrey Armour of the Uptown area of New Orleans knows from experience how helpful income-based housing can be. Earlier in life, she lived in the St. Bernard projects in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans for 23 years while raising her [...]

    By Emily Miles This month, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum continued its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration with a rather unusual exhibit. On Thursday, March 4, Animal Collective collaborated with artist Danny Perez on a unique performance piece specifically designed for the museum. Transverse Temporal Gyrus featured original recorded music composed for the event. [...]

By Amelia Blevins Before you say anything, Repo Men is not a knock-off of 2008’s Repo! The Genetic Opera. There’s no singing here and no fodder for Hot Topic’s usual patrons. What it is, is an action satire on the dark, sci-fi and—yes, I’ll admit—overdone topic of organ repossession. Welcome to the world of science [...]