Featured Conner Gordon | 28 Mar 2018 In Washington, D.C., A March Against Fear At the March For Our Lives, young people stood front and center in the fight against gun violence in America.
Criminal Justice Conner Gordon | 1 Jun 2017 A Question of Responsibility for Biased 911 Callers Should people be held responsible for calling 911 for reasons rooted in prejudice?
In Dana Schutz's Open Casket, Interrogating the Aesthetics of Erasure Rather than obscuring the forces that led to Emmett Till's murder, Dana Schutz's controversial painting of Till's open casket forces the viewer to reflect on racism's dehumanization. 30 Mar 2017 | Conner Gordon
Defunding America's Cultural Institutions: An Exercise in Absurdity A look at the Trump administration's budget priorities makes clear that cutting the NEA, NEH and CPB is more about symbolic posturing than fiscal sensibility. 17 Mar 2017 | Conner Gordon
Should Americans Hope for a President Pence? A President Pence could be less dangerous to US institutions than President Trump, but at what cost to hard-fought progressive policy? 9 Mar 2017 | Conner Gordon
What Democracy Looks Like Reflections on protest and the benefit of chaos in the Trump era. 30 Jan 2017 | Conner Gordon
Defending Normative Governance: A Matter of Language Trump's rise has threatened the role of norms in our domestic and international order. His opponents must employ new language to defend it. 16 Jan 2017 | Conner Gordon
Buzzfeed's Dossier Publication Threatens Trust in Investigative Media As media struggles to regain public trust and hold Trump accountable, Buzzfeed's publication of unverified controversies surrounding Trump plays with fire. 11 Jan 2017 | Conner Gordon
A Call to Vigilance in the Fight for Congressional Ethics Looking at checks on the Trump administration alone misses the whole picture. 4 Jan 2017 | Conner Gordon
Determining Moral Responsibility in the Pizzagate Shooting Should systemic conditions of fake news share the blame for Edgar Welch's crimes? 2 Jan 2017 | Conner Gordon
Donald Trump as Anti-Establishment Figure: A Failure of Language Donald Trump may be an anti-establishment figure. Yet characterizing him as such disguises the hatred and bigotry that has propelled him to the White House. 11 Nov 2016 | Conner Gordon
Standing Still in Las Vegas What can one learn from standing still in a landscape meant to actively discourage it? 29 Oct 2016 | Conner Gordon
In Las Vegas, Trump's Policies Worry a Former Nuclear Test Site Employee Donald Trump's unpredictability has long been an asset of campaign. It's also what scares former nuclear test site worker Jack Doyle. 20 Oct 2016 | Conner Gordon
In Ferguson, Divides Remain as a Community Moves Forward Neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump has visited Ferguson. We interviewed the town's residents to see what they wanted both candidates to know about their city. 13 Oct 2016 | Conner Gordon
Proprietary Tech's Environmental Cost Apple's removal of the headphone jack from its latest iPhone sparks worries about proprietary technology and e-waste. 12 Sep 2016 | Conner Gordon
Open Mike Eagle, Race and Getting the Joke Couching racial differences in understanding alone does little to foster common ground. Here's how hip-hop could change that. 22 Aug 2016 | Conner Gordon
Modifying the Mosquito Should public health experts use genetically modified mosquitoes to prevent a Zika epidemic? 9 Aug 2016 | Conner Gordon
Should Musician's Intent Matter to Political Campaigns? Are politicians wrong to appropriate music for their own purposes? Your answer probably depends on how you read literature. 28 Jul 2016 | Conner Gordon
Fighting Obscenity with Automation Fighting a wave of explicit online content, sites like Facebook grapple with the ethics of automated content moderation. 21 Jul 2016 | Conner Gordon
Pokemon Go and the Public Space The popular augmented reality app underscores tensions between the individual, technology and the public space. 14 Jul 2016 | Conner Gordon
The Dangers of Partition as Peace Recent protests in Kosovo have highlighted the dangers of ethnic partition as a viable conflict resolution policy. 16 May 2016 | Conner Gordon
This and That: The NRA's Firearm Fairy Tales Interns Conner Gordon and Connor McAndrew take a look at the NRA's controversial, firearm-themed retelling of childhood fairy tales. 15 Apr 2016 | Conner Gordon
