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Non-fungible tokens, despite being a distant reality, are a valuable thought experiment: What does the world look like when individuals can purchase a stake in that which others create?

News media is not bereft of coverage about the workings of Congress, but there is little value in elevating fringe figures to frontpage status or featuring them in endless opinion pieces that drown out any substantial reporting on what the nation’s legislature is actually doing.

"America’s mental health crisis has necessitated legislative action for years. The new administration just may answer that decades-long call."

Much like the challenges that plagued the United States last year, many of the problems we are facing in 2021 will require us to find synergy between systems and perspectives that often clash — including between the public and private sectors, the individual and the greater population, and federal and state governments. Understanding these three sets of dynamics will ensure a better approach toward accelerating pandemic mitigation and recovery.

Black Lives Matter lives on digital oxygen. In America, ideas and political movements have two fates: They either become aesthetics, or they die.

As Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine approaches the market, healthcare officials will face the dilemma of fairly allocating the less effective vaccine. Why would someone at high risk for severe COVID-19 complications want to take a slightly less protective product if a better option is readily available?

Big Tech has been the protagonist of America’s decades-long love affair with misinformation. Now, a full Trump term and one Capitol Hill catastrophe later, the behemoths of Silicon Valley are attempting to cast themselves as main actors again, only this time on the nation’s political stage.

Biden ran on an ambitious, progressive policy platform that has many youth voters excited. How effectively Biden delivers for these young Americans, who rallied behind him despite their misgivings, will be a defining metric of his unprecedented presidency.

There is no doubt that Trump’s vision will continue to influence Republican Party politics, and there is quite a large chance that he himself will not be leaving either. But, as it stands, he is currently out of a job, so where does he go next?

While it is undeniable that our current welfare system has its problems, our focus should be on fixing it, rather than implementing an expensive and less effective system like UBI.