Nowadays, the media goes crazy with celebrities and their personal lives. There are paparazzi everywhere; if a public figure does something slightly unusual, there will be more than hundreds of articles addressing it the next day
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Why do people leave malicious comments on certain figures? I believe people are jealous of the fame that these figures have the privilege to have.
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According to CBS News, there have been a reported 382 mass shootings this year, as of September the first. (A mass shooting being, according to the FBI, "four or more murdered during an event with no ‘cooling-off period’ between the murders").
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I am Chinese American. I was born in Boston, the son of immigrant parents. On July 4th, I don my full red, white, and blue (figuratively, I don’t actually have clothes that match these colors). On October 1st, I celebrate China National Day, a tribute to my heritage.
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The last thing that I expected Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 to do outside of the band was become a conspiracy wacko. Now, you may have heard of Tom’s “To the Stars… Academy of Arts and Sciences.”
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Among all the president candidates in 2020, Andrew Yang stands out as the only person of Asian descent running as a Democrat. Although he is an entrepreneur instead of a career politician, he uses this to his advantage as he claimed that he will save the US’s future economy. He approaches future economic issues through […]
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Last month, I had the privilege of seeing Representative Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) speak at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life. After a few minutes of pleasantries, Pressley began to give an autobiography of her political journey, beginning as a scheduler for Senator John Kerry, serving as the first African-American woman on Boston’s City Council, […]
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Moral hazard—the disincentive to protect against risks due to being shielded from the consequences—should definitely affect public policy. When moral hazard encourages people to be reckless—be it by opioid users with access to Narcan or drivers with reliable car insurance—the simple solution is to eliminate the moral hazard. Unfortunately, this answer does not address the […]
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After almost two years of subpoenas, interviews, and fact-gathering, all amid both subtle and vocal attacks by Donald Trump and Fox News, the Mueller investigation has finally ended. In May of 2017, a week after Trump abruptly fired FBI director James Comey—thus ending his probe into potential collusion with the Russian government in the 2016 […]
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The years of intra-party unity that Donald Trump has brought about for the Democrats appears to be coming to an end. Alongside increasing support for Bernie Sanders’s (awesome, but farfetched) domestic agenda, there are Democrats who want more fiscal restraint. And despite scores of progressives embracing identity politics, some—most notably, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg—don’t […]
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Arthur Gao is a Vth form student from Shanghai, China. He enjoys reading Latin American history and literature, listening to electronic music, and pretending to be a detective. He is interested in sharing political and social news about Latin America and Europe on Parkman Post.
Emma is a IV form boarding student from California. She likes drawing, keeping her growing collection of succulents alive, and playing piano in her free time. She’s especially interested in the sciences and math and how that intertwines with design and art. Having lived in both Toronto and Beijing...
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