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  • A Culture in and of Yourself

    You ate only a pound of meat a month?” My cousin, Yuan—looking up from his phone for the first time since we’d sat down at the table—says, interrupting Aunt Li. “That’s crazy. Is it even possible to live on that?” “We’re alive, aren’t we?” my mom says teasingly. Yuan shakes his head and grunts, and…

  • The Case for Presumed Consent

    If you can remember back to when you first got your drivers’ license, you may recall being asked if you wanted to be an organ donor. You may not have thought much of it—I know that I, at 16, certainly didn’t—but with an average of 18 people dying every day waiting for an organ transplant…

  • Political Theory and Electric Cars

    Qiong Liu’s office—located on the top floor of the North Las Vegas city hall—is bright and comfortably neat, scattered with rocks gathered from hikes in the nearby RedRock Mountains and pictures of her friends and family. We begin to talk almost immediately. Liu is friendly and efficient, not the type to beat around the bush.…