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Letter to the editor: Trump’s Imperialist Aggression Against Venezuela and Why UW Should Care

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The Mamdani effect: charm or calculation?

Zohran Mamdani beat out former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his campaign for mayor of New York City with purpose and precision. His campaign highlighted three main goals: fast and free buses, free child care and freezing rent —  ideas that would completely transform the life of an average New Yorker.

Trump’s Venezuelan ship strikes damage international relations

The creative cost of AI in music

“The day the music died” are lyrics musician Don McLean dedicated to Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens after a 1959 plane crash took their lives. Now, it can be applied to the fatal use of artificial intelligence in music. 

UW-Madison toes the line between burnout culture and mental health

Luigi Mangione, Anna Delvey and the Louvre heist suspects: Gen Z dangerously sees crimes as viral content

Luigi Mangione should not be famous. And yet, in some corners of TikTok, his name has become a pop culture gag. It’s absurd, weird and exactly the kind of humor that Gen Z loves. 

Have we taken ‘stranger danger’ too far?

I was sitting at a table in the annex of Michelangelo’s Coffee House, spacing out over my assigned reading for English 245 and eavesdropping on a group of elderly men who gathered at a table next to mine for their weekly get-together. Through the window, a moving truck twisted its way into the small cul-de-sac behind the café, attempting to loop its tail around a vintage Ford Bronco before the driver eventually gave up and sent a boy in a cream-colored uniform to look for the owner of the obstacle. 

The true danger of AI comes from overreliance, not misinformation

 “Will Google ever be replaced?”

Large language models are demons. But not like that

ChatGPT is a demon. Yes, a demon. Now, when I call a Large Language Model demonic, I don’t mean to conjure up images of fallen angels and other biblical images. However, the way artificial intelligence and LLMs present themselves is inherently evil.

Letter to the editor: A Response to the Daily Cardinal

Editor's note: This article was updated to correct multiple factual inaccuracies.

Cardinal View: Conservatives say they’re silenced at UW-Madison. What they really want is immunity from criticism

Editor's note: This article was updated at 5:45 p.m. to a statistical error. 

Don’t forget slow burn relationships

We need to let things be. Not every person we meet is meant to set off fireworks from the start. Not everything needs to click instantly or rush into intensity.

The Tylenol Crisis and RFK Jr.’s weaponization of science

President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims on a potential link between Tylenol in pregnancy and a rise in autism diagnoses is dangerous and causes public distrust and damages trust in science.

Cardinal View: The Cardinal stands with the Indiana Daily Student

The University of Indiana-Bloomington shut down their newspaper’s print product Oct. 15 and fired the paper’s advisor, Jim Rodenbush, after he opposed the university’s directive to print “nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all” in its physical issues.

Letter to the editor: Pro-Palestine and Pro-Israel Both Claim Peace, but Only One Practices It

I recently read Safa Razvi’s recent Daily Cardinal op-ed, “Pro Palestine is not Anti-Israel. It is Pro-Human,” with genuine empathy for her compassion toward human suffering. But compassion alone cannot substitute for truth. Razvi’s column, and much of the rhetoric echoing across campus, ignores a basic reality: the pro-Israel community is, at its core, a pro-peace community. The same cannot be said of the activists leading the “pro-Palestine” movement at UW-Madison.

Letter to the editor re: Regent Policy Document RPD 4-X-Core General Education Requirements

To the Editor:

Reading as resistance: Open your mind to banned books

The current version of America is supposedly of the highest technological, intellectual prowess. In theory, this rendering of the country entails a highly intellectualized, seamlessly-functioning society which uplifts the access to knowledge and artistic enrichment of all its citizens. In reality, it denotes the rampant self-censorship of educators, vilification of children's novels and erasure of marginalized groups. This isn’t some behemoth of dystopian fiction, nor is it a hyperbolized depiction. 

On Ho-Chunk land, UW-Madison still chooses silence over support

Each year, tens of thousands of prospective students explore campus, weighing the pros and cons of a future education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I still remember my own experience visiting campus for the first time. After the customary stops at Library Mall and Memorial Union, we arrived at the bottom of Bascom Hill, where the tour guides delivered a land acknowledgement speech recognizing the Ho-Chunk Nation as the ancestral land the university was built on. 

How to find peace in solitude

I recently finished the “it year” — my freshman year of college. Lots of nights to remember — laughter shared, experiences gained. At first, it felt like being placed in a setting with constant stimulation. There was always something going on — late night Taco Bell runs, gossip, football games, wine Wednesdays, going out for three-day benders — you name it. It sounds exciting at first, and honestly, it was. But after a while, I felt like something was off. 

Pro-Palestine is not anti-Israel. It’s pro-human

Dating back over a century, the Palestine-Israel conflict is not new. Some may believe this war sparked in October 2023 following Hamas’ attack on Israel. In reality, this scene began to unravel far before that.