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Subsidize innovation instead of taxation

A carbon tax will not be an effective way to reduce energy usage. We should instead be encouraging the use of more sustainable energy by subsidizing innovation in energy practices.
  • Emily Shwake
  • May 10, 2016

Think twice before telling that woman to smile more

Expecting Harriet Tubman to smile on the $20 bill is reinforcing highly genderized stereotypes.
  • Emily Shwake
  • May 1, 2016

Treatment over punishment: The need for drug policy reform

Our nation’s drug policies would be more effective if they emphasized rehabilitation and education over brutal punishment.
  • Emily Shwake
  • April 27, 2016

The shifting efficacy of journalism

Is text dying out as journalism progresses into the future?
  • Emily Shwake
  • April 21, 2016

Can’t pick a major? Design your own

A custom major might help you better prepare for life after graduation.
  • Emily Shwake
  • April 12, 2016

An argument for the sometimes vegetarian

If we all just ate less meat, we can start a environmental revolution.
  • Emily Shwake
  • April 3, 2016

Feel free to pee: The malignancy of sex-segregated bathrooms

Sex-segregated bathrooms add to social anxieties facing transgender people.
  • Emily Shwake
  • March 29, 2016

A mile in a black man’s shoes

‘Between the World and Me’: A vital education on race in 21st-century America
  • Emily Shwake
  • March 8, 2016

Why do we hate political flip-flopping?

Many voters see a change in a candidate’s opinion as inauthentic.
  • Emily Shwake
  • February 24, 2016

Silence is complicity

Panhellenic women should not stay silent when faced with incidents of prejudice involving Greek life.
  • Emily Shwake
  • February 11, 2016
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