By Dillon O’Toole Looking back on my article from one year ago, 2020 Sucks (But at Least the Music Is Good), the title still holds up to this day. 2020 was a year to forget in most aspects, but throughout the year great new music was continually released. The trend of good music being released seems to have continued into 2021, as I have found several albums that I consider to be quite good already. …
Social Media At Large
By Patrick McAuliffe Does anyone really read the Terms and Conditions that accompany setting up a new social media account? For all anyone may know, Facebook or Twitter could ban one’s account for any reason, at any time. Many conservatives believe that their pages and accounts disproportionately suffer from bias on behalf of large social media companies, although proving this with empirical data on which accounts and pages are removed is difficult when a private…
Shots! Shots! Shots! …Everybody?
By Marc Anthony For decades, schools have mandated vaccinations in the name of public health, claiming that vaccinating the nation’s youth is the quickest, most efficient, and least costly road to herd immunity. The government’s claim has proven true in many cases: Smallpox, Polio, and Measles have been entirely eradicated, and many other severe illnesses have had very few outbreaks thanks to childhood vaccination. In mass-vaccinating children, the government has saved millions of dollars in…
Gaetz-Gate
By Joe Badalamenti It seems that there is yet another scandal in DC. Florida Representative Matt Gaetz has been accused of a flurry of crimes, from prostitution to outright sex trafficking. Allegations on this scale can be career-ending to a politician such as Gaetz, though Representative Gaetz has taken the path of outright denying these allegations, claiming it is the result of a smear campaign by the mainstream media. Are the allegations all astroturf set…
Contemporary Stupidity: A response to “Contemporary Arrogance”
By Madeline Perez On April 14th, 2021, Binghamton Review published an article entitled “Contemporary Arrogance.” Now, as Copy Desk Chief, I should have already been familiar with the article, but it’s not uncommon for another E-board member to put pieces through the editing process, so I never saw it. The publication of this article was, in my opinion, the worst oversight I have ever seen from the Review. As someone who’s partially responsible for its…
The Effective Replacement For The Welfare State
By Siddharth Gundapaneni Federal welfare programs were created in order to improve the well-being of the general public. These can range from providing healthcare, food stamps, housing subsidies, and more, for the general public. Unfortunately, as the renowned economist Thomas Sowell once stated, “Nothing is easier than to have good intentions but, without an understanding of how an economy works, good intentions can lead to disastrous consequences for a whole nation.” Leftists often concur that…
Russian Into Some Foreign Aggression
By Julius Apostata Привет, товарищ! Greetings, comrade! Welcome to the most free and open country in the world… RUSSIA! Here, we obey glorious Russian leader Vladimir Putin while aggressively—I mean righteously, of course!—reclaiming land that is owned by other countries. Да, maybe those from the West can claim that what we are doing is extremely aggressive foreign expansion, but trust us, this is legit! After all, that weakling—I mean, totally not a convenient target—Ukraine had…
The Hinman/CIW Proletariat Manifesto
By Sara Traynor and Madeline Perez Five students went missing after meeting with Harvey Stenger and other Binghamton administrative forces over the past three weeks. Three were from Hinman, two from CIW. After an (honestly half-assed) investigation conducted by UPD, their bodies were discovered in a shiny new Mountainview suite, their body parts stuffed and placed in glass cases as trophies. No, this story isn’t real. But you believed it for a second, didn’t you? …
COVID Insanity
By Joe Badalamenti In the year 2020, Americans were faced with the biggest crisis in over a decade. COVID-19 went from a regional virus to an uncontrollable pandemic spreading worldwide. The major effects of this pandemic were a national recession and widespread panic amongst American citizens. The challenges that the country faces call for courage and leadership to guide everyone through these troubling times. What we saw was the opposite. To combat the pandemic, we…
Papers Please!
By Patrick McAuliffe As the world begins to reopen from the pandemic and millions of COVID vaccines are being administered to more and more groups of people, a startling trend has started to emerge. Talking heads, people who haven’t left home in a year, and many others in between are calling for legislation to mandate proof of vaccination against COVID in order for a person to return to pre-pandemic participation in society. Restaurants, airports, concert…
Why I Lack Optimism for Post-Covid America
By Arthur O’Sullivan This past Easter, I had the good fortune of being able to come home and celebrate the holiday with my politically divided family. The men in the family tend to be varying shades of conservative; the women tend to be varying shades of liberal. We get along well despite this, and we had a mostly peaceful Holy Week, with the exception of one day, which saw a rather explosive argument about COVID-19…
Bill 420 Blaze It: Is it Dope?
By Julius Apostata Heeeeyyyy, man! Did you, like, hear the totally awesome news? Of course you have, because, like, it’s just that FAR OUT! Like, you know how we would always have to go to the nature preserve to hit up a blunt? Well, we still probably have to do that to get high anyway, but guess what? WEED HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN LEGALIZED IN NEW YORK! We have officially reached NIRVANA, man! *Ahem*, bad stoner…
Not A Party For You, SA!
By Our Staff The Student Association (SA) is a student government body founded in 1973 at Binghamton University following the dissolution of a joint student-faculty association meant to oversee student organizations. It is the primary organization responsible for funding hundreds of clubs and associations on campus, while simultaneously providing legal protection to student organizations. Despite regulating many student organizations, the SA is not a part of the University; on their website, they disclose that they…
Let’s Tik-Talk about TikTok
By Not Matt Gagliano Anyone who knows me knows that there is nothing I love more than social media. Any free time I may have I always spend on my phone, scrolling endlessly through the intelligent and thought-provoking content that exists on all social networking sites. There is quite literally nothing I love more in life than posting every little thing that happens in my life online, and getting validation from a bunch of strangers.…
Old White Men to the Rescue
By Sadtrick McAwful As a verified Twitter user that has my mask on in my profile picture (never too careful!), I, like many of you, have suffered drastic mental and emotional harm over the last four years. Tr*mp’s meteoric rise to sole dictator of the United States gave me full-on panic attacks every time I received a CNN news alert. Orange Man’s administration put children in cages, tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and…