By Sarah Song* On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court allowed some of President Trump’s travel ban to stand, which he quickly hailed as a “clear victory.” Challengers of the ban have been equally quick to emphasize that the court’s opinion actually protects many people seeking to enter the U.S. including those who have families, offers of employment, or invitations from universities—those with “a bona fide relationship with a person or entity” in the U.S.[1] In drawing this line, the court …
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Republican Bill Would Make it Easier for Employers to Access Your Genetic Makeup
By Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.)* When scientists started the process of sequencing the human genome, it began to unlock limitless advancements in medicine that were and remain virtually unparalleled in our history. At the same time, a new risk arose that genetic information could be used for employment and health insurance discrimination. Every American was a potential victim; none of us were born with perfect genes. No one should be forced to live in fear that their genetic information …
Presidentializing Incivility: Trump and the Expansion of Presidential Opportunity
By Brian Christopher Jones* No government or military experience…fine. Don’t read (beyond Twitter)…fine. Refuse to release your tax returns…fine. Encourage violence at your campaign rallies…fine. Degrade women about their “looks”…fine. Mock disabled persons…fine. Belittle political opponents and defame their families…fine. Brag about groping and touching (potentially sexually assaulting) women…fine. Openly lie to the American public…fine. And the list could go …
Repeal of Dodd Frank Act-Heralding a new financial crisis?
By Nicolas Deising* & Nihal Dsouza** The Dodd Frank Act is considered to be the most ambitious and far reaching legislation regulating the financial sector since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. On the surface, it instills confidence in the financial system. At a deeper level, it is aimed at preventing similar occurrences to the 2008 financial crisis, in which millions of people lost their homes and jobs and trillions of dollars of national wealth disappeared. Despite its benefits, the …
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Repealing the ACA Would be a Step Backwards in Treatment of HIV
By Mark Satta* “It was a holocaust…All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.” Those are the words of David Mixner, a civil rights activist and author, who lived through the horror of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and early 1990s in the United States—a time in which a diagnosis of HIV was, for most, a death sentence, and in which the treatment …
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