The sunk costs fallacy is a term coined by economists that denotes a phenomenon motivating people to continue pursuing a goal or activity simply because they have already invested a lot of time, money, or effort into the project.
Without any form of reparations, America will never even begin to truly repay the tremendous debt it owes to its Black citizens for centuries of devastation and exploitation.
By taking an active stance against voter suppression, Harvard can truly uphold its institutional commitment to producing “the citizens and citizen-leaders for our society.”
Democrats are up against a voter suppression emergency. It's time to use every procedural maneuver available in order to thwart the burgeoning assault on American democracy.
As we proceed with our first full semester on campus, we must consider what we owe to those who did not make it. Be compassionate. Wear a mask. Stick to your testing schedule. Don’t just do it because it’s required — do it for the people you may never meet, in hopes that they, too, might make it. It’s what we owe to those that didn’t make it.
Today, wealthy countries like the United States are on the fast track to normalcy because they have stockpiled enormous vaccine surpluses before lower-income nations could access the global vaccine market.
The cruelty of life behind bars is often exacerbated by the all-encompassing dehumanization of being silenced. Prison journalism is beneficial for reducing recidivism rates and shedding light on abuses and injustices that occur in prisons.
Yukari Kane is the co-founder of the Prison Journalism Project, a nonprofit organization working to cultivate journalism within prisons across the country.
With the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in full swing and numerous notable Black women sidelined, the Olympic committee and all international athletic bodies must take swift action to abolish their discriminatory health regulations and all arbitrary rules that baselessly disadvantage Black female athletes.
History should be not taught as an exercise in patriotic self-congratulation, but instead, as a critical analysis of how the past produced the society we live in today.
