OPINION

There’s no such thing as choosing the wrong major

By Aneri Prashant Mehta | Mar. 5

So if you're in a career identity crisis, being scared not just of failing, but of not becoming the right version of yourself, know that you're not the only one. The fear of waking up one day and hating the career you picked is a threat that hangs above all of us. But what if we looked at our major as the first step in discovering how we think and what we care about?

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OPINION

Being busy is not the flex you think it is

By Shreya Bhargava | Feb. 26

College is supposed to be a period of transformation. A time when people experiment, question and figure out who they want to become. Yet, when busyness becomes the dominant signal of value, that transformation narrows. Identity gets built around output, character gets measured through capacity and humanity gets filtered through productivity.

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OPINION

Trump’s Team USA hockey debacle

By Safa Razvi | Feb. 26

In celebrating the men while snidely diminishing the women, the White House showed that even in moments of national pride, gender equality is only embraced when convenient.

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OPINION

Culture or costume? The line between Chinese appreciation and appropriation.

By Sydney Frusher | Feb. 19

Being Chinese is not a trend or a brand that can be defined by a consumer base to which people cherry-pick and customize to their own convenience. Being Chinese is an identity and lived experience marked by traditions and values established far before the emergence of the countries and peoples who seek to exoticize it.

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OPINION

Who gets to belong on America’s biggest stage?

By Lily Andrias | Feb. 19

If belonging depends on exclusion, it will always be fragile. If national identity cannot accommodate linguistic and cultural plurality, it does not reflect the country as it exists. Bad Bunny’s halftime show became a question America needs to answer: is expansion a threat, or is it simply the next chapter in a story that has never been singular to begin with?

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OPINION

How algorithmic music streaming killed music taste

By Rachel Gerhardt | Feb. 12

If we do not take our music listening habits out of the cold, dead hands of an automated algorithm — not to mention whose pockets the dirty hands of major music streaming platforms CEOs are sliding millions of dollars into — Mr. Music-Lover will be an archaic caricature of a passionate past lost to a passionless present. 

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OPINION

Stop treating vaccines like an opinion

By Brady Ahler | Feb. 12

Children who are too young to be vaccinated, immunocompromised individuals, people who cannot receive vaccines for medical reasons, and scores of others are put at risk by the resulting weakened herd immunity. When people who can get vaccinated choose not to, they endanger those around them. Vaccine refusal isn’t just irresponsible, it’s selfish.

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OPINION

Stop treating vaccines like an opinion

By Brady Ahler | Feb. 12

Children who are too young to be vaccinated, immunocompromised individuals, people who cannot receive vaccines for medical reasons, and scores of others are put at risk by the resulting weakened herd immunity. When people who can get vaccinated choose not to, they endanger those around them. Vaccine refusal isn’t just irresponsible, it’s selfish.

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OPINION

Letter to the editor: Re “Bipartisan antisemitism bill draws controversy over free speech” (news article, Feb. 5)

By By Chad Goldberg | Feb. 5

Editor’s note: Letters to the Editor and open letters reflect the opinions, concerns and views of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community, may or may not be accurate and do not reflect the editorial views or opinions of The Daily Cardinal  

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OPINION

Why ‘forgive but never forget’ keeps us emotionally stuck

By Shreya Bhargava | Feb. 5

While “forgive but never forget” seems like a mature response, it often keeps people emotionally stuck. True forgiveness is quieter. It looks like remembering without reliving. It looks like holding boundaries without bitterness. It looks like allowing a chapter to close without needing to reread it every day.

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OPINION

When the economy falls, immigrants are forced to pay the price

By Safa Razvi | Feb. 5

When the economy becomes unstable, immigration enforcement becomes a show of support for citizens. Deportation is sold as an economic solution, but it instead functions more as an emotional fallback. Immigrants become a target for futile American frustration and discourse. This allows political leaders to claim they are protecting workers without addressing why they are struggling in the first place and getting at the root of the issue.

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OPINION

Letter to the Editor: Why Our Campus Needed The Madison Federalist

By Benjamin Rothove | Feb. 2

Editor’s note: Letters to the Editor and open letters reflect the opinions, concerns and views of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community. As such, the information presented may or may not be accurate. Letters to the Editor and open letters do not reflect the editorial views or opinions of The Daily Cardinal 

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OPINION

Letter to the editor: We need the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (S.2611)

By  Mikhail Ortiz-Lunyov | Jan. 29

Editor’s note: Letters to the Editor and open letters reflect the opinions, concerns and views of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community. As such, the information presented may or may not be accurate. Letters to the Editor and open letters do not reflect the editorial views or opinions of The Daily Cardinal 

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OPINION

Cardinal View: Mnookin couldn’t meet UW’s moment. She’ll need to overcome more to meet Columbia’s

By The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board | Jan. 29

As Mnookin leaves UW-Madison for Columbia University, her mixed record offers little reassurance she will meet the demands of a defining moment for higher education.

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OPINION

A response to the Madison Federalist’s article on Marxism: students deserve better journalism

By Roman Fritz | Jan. 29

It’s for these reasons that I declined to publish my critique in the Federalist. It’s a platform used for hate and outrage on a national level against those who are most vulnerable to it, particularly on our own campus. This is not journalism. Students deserve better, and campus discourse demands higher standards.

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OPINION

ICE is knocking. The cost of compassion has risen

By Safa Razvi | Jan. 22

By alarming citizens into silence, through brutal force, quiet threats and intimidation, the very essence of our society is being destroyed. 

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OPINION

2026 is the new 2016, and that should worry us

By Sungyun Jung | Jan. 22

There’s something unsettling about the phrase “2026 is the new 2016.” It suggests we want the comfort of the past without confronting why the present feels so overwhelming. We can’t recreate ease without addressing the conditions that have eroded it.