Bundling Email for Future President
A presidential candidate lays out why defeating Donald Trump isn’t enough to get America back on track — they need a Democratic Senate to make progress.
Virtual Grassroots Fundraiser
A former president asks supporters to donate to attend a virtual event with them that raises money for five U.S. Senate candidates.
Activist Shares Her Story
A rising star in Democratic politics explains the challenges they had to overcome growing up in poverty and connects the dots to today’s politics.
The New Decade
A hazy late-night musing about America’s trajectory and my own. I pose questions. I check my privilege. I wonder where I’ll be in ten years time.
Bar Mitzvah
Judaism isn’t a prominent part of my life right now, but I’m comforted in knowing it remains within reach, ready for me to reach out and harness it once again.
What makes great heroes?
What makes great heroes? Jack Bauer doesn’t wear a cape. He can’t fly. He’s not a superhero or an antihero, but what I’ve called a naturalistic hero, someone uniquely capable to defeat enemies through wit and strength, a perfect match…
Segregation in Suburbia
Multiple generations of my family grew up in Nassau County. But only until I went away could I understand clearly how my livelihood, my opportunities since birth, are darkly entangled with structural neglect toward persons of color.
The public school diversity problem
New York State Public Schools have a diversity problem. We all know it. And we haven’t done enough to set things right.
Big data miners are sorry for being bad
Like toddlers building castles out of sand, they molded a resource — your information — giving shape to a predictive algorithm. So who exactly is “they”? No matter. None of them deserve your pity.
On Informed Citizenship
We must scrutinize what we hear and welcome debate. Informed citizenship demands elected officials reimagine what government can be. I haven’t given up hope for us. Neither should you.
Thinking-Feeling Politics
Excerpts extracted from my undergrad senior thesis project exploring what makes political messages persuasive. My claim: a combination of strategic issue framing and concrete emotional appeals.
The Semantic Incongruity of Calling Machines “Human”
Computers may resemble us in spirit, and may sometime soon make “intentional” judgments, but conferring on them a higher distinction, “human,” perpetuates semantic absurdity.
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