Month / January 16, 2015
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An Old Pastime Perseveres
BY BENJAMIN SZANTON As with global temperatures or the cost of college, a graph of TV viewership of the World Series presents a consistently ominous trend over the past 20 years. This year’s Series, in which the San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals to win their third championship in five years, was no…
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In Baseball We Trust
BY GRACE PORTELANCE Competitive markets and baseball are two things that are quintessentially American—though not everyone loves them, they occupy a huge cultural space in our society. However, these two cultural staples have historically been at odds – since the inception of anti-trust laws, baseball has enjoyed a strange and unique exemption. In fact, one…
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State of the Games
BY REUBEN SIEGMAN When most people think of the Olympics, they think of unity, togetherness, and a place where nations stand equal as competitors. However, these words can no longer be used to describe the Olympics. When Baron Pierre de Coubertin created the modern Olympic games, he envisioned an event that would help unite the…
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Politicizing the Surgeon General
BY RUBY ARORA Ebola took the world by storm a few months ago, and panic has since spread like wildfire through Africa, Europe, and the United States. From Eric Duncan to Nina Pham, each successive case of Ebola in the U.S. shocked American citizens and contributed to the Ebola pandemonium. After the first domestic outbreak,…
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Greeks Head to the Polls
BY JOHN NIKITAS Greece’s unemployment rate has fallen by more than two full percentage points, nation-wide strikes and protests have subsided, and the unpopular bailout program is set to end in less than two months. The country’s six year recession is finally over. It would appear as if the Greek prime minister should be on…
