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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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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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.
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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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
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.
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.
By alarming citizens into silence, through brutal force, quiet threats and intimidation, the very essence of our society is being destroyed.
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.
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While an unconventional “friendship” seemingly arose from this meeting, it’s anything but genuine. It’s a media-crafted illusion — a calculated effort by Mamdani to put personal grievances with Trump aside and secure tangible gains to benefit the lives of New Yorkers.
If the current administration’s clouded perception of legality regarding the laws of armed conflict continues, irrevocable damage may be done across the international community.
AI can never replicate human emotions, and for that reason, it will never overtake the music industry as a whole. It is important to consciously contest AI as a means of preserving the spirit of the human being.
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