Op-ed

this week raises important points in the continuing debate about the value of medical data and the need for patient privacy. “Mass data can inform medicine like nothing else and save countless lives, including, perhaps, your own,” Agus argues in his Op-Ed. And he’s right. Agus also tells doctors and patients to move past their respective resistance to providing patient data because it delivers tremendous benefits for the future of healthcare delivery. But, that’s easier said than done. As a…

To most people America and Canada have always been sister countries and have shared friendly borders. During the 19th century this was not the case between the countries. War Plan Red and Blood and Daring: Now Canada Fought The American Civil War and Founded A Nation are two books that examine the boarder relationship between the United States and Canada. War Plan Red written by Kevin Lippert is divided into three parts: Part One: The War of 1812, and Part Two: Border Disputes, Part Three:…

No matter how many times I’ll have to write one, reflections are always difficult. They make you look at yourself and your work and dissect every good and bad aspect of it. Sometimes it’s hard because just the task of analyzing one’s own work can be tricky, but my personal biggest issue is learning how to fix what I find specifically wrong. Part of this is due to my own writing style, along with the bad habits that come with it. However, throughout this class, I have learned more about how to…

negative consequences to humanity which can never be undone. The most important of such risks is climate change and if left unchecked, it could essentially wipe out humans from the face of the earth. The Go Vegan to Save the Earth, University of Maine Op-Ed vehemently defends the powerful role Veganism could play in helping to avoid such a disastrous outcome. It’s apparent that Veganism is the only alternative diet choice that positively impacts the overall health of our environment.…

Doyle McManus is a Washington D.C. Op-Ed columnist for Los Angeles Times who writes about national and international political issues twice a week. McManus is a four-time winner of the National Press Club’s Edwin Hood Award for reporting on U.S. foreign policy. At one point he moved to Washington D.C. to serve as a State Department and White House correspondent. In addition, McManus was foreign correspondent for the United Press International for three years. Starting his journalism career in…

Loosing the News The core news that have described the American media since its beginning, suffered tremendous changes with the rise of technology and contributed to a negative outcome by hurting the “essential food supply,” (p. 3) for the American democracy. The technology innovation brought with itself competition and an unending desire for more profit in the newspaper world, thus, fact-based reporting changed its role from a watchdog over government, into an amusing clown to the public. The…

Roxanne Gay, in her Op-Ed piece “On the Death of Sandra Bland and Our Vulnerable Bodies” that featured in The New York Times, takes a stand position regarding the treatment of Black women, or black people in general, in America. However, the injustice illustrated by Gay is not the one from one civilian to another but rather from the justice systems originally designed to keep all Americans safe notwithstanding their skin color nor racial affiliation. According to Gay’s piece, the crimes that the…

Mariya Zahid Mr. Neimeth APUSH Op Ed 12/16/15 Andrew Jackson became the seventh president of the United States after the Election of 1828. He was able to manipulate the country with his substantial amount of power. His belligerent decision making skills had caused America to suffer greatly. After becoming president, Andrew Jackson felt that he had the power to put anyone in any position of power. He ruled like a monarch, giving power to his family and friends. He fired ten percent of the…

SUKHUMI, Georgia — He is blind in one eye and has a bad hip that makes it painful to sit, never mind endure the kicks and punches that are an essential part of his job as a mixed martial arts fighter. He is also nearly twice the age of many of his rivals at the top of his harrowingly brutal profession. Yet, as happens whenever Jeff Monson, a 45-year-old American known as “The Snowman,” visits a town in Russia — or, in this case, Abkhazia, one of the pro-Russian enclaves in the lands of the…

And while other senior officials had used personal email accounts for official business, including Colin Powell when he was secretary, the rules made clear by the time she became the nation’s top diplomat that using a private server for official business was neither allowed nor encouraged because of “significant security risks.” Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private server was known by some officials beyond her closest aides, but no one in the State Department told her directly to use the…