Conner Gordon

As student loan debt continues to rise, enforcement of its collection poses a unique problem for the criminal justice system.

Images of the Syrian refugee crisis by Ai Weiwei have sparked controversy and questions of how to respond to the tragedy of Aylan Kurdi.

Are the right people talking about white privilege?

Dangerous levels of pesticides in marijuana reveal a growing tension between public health and drug policy.

Contrary to worries about political correctness gone wild, trigger warnings can be a valuable classroom tool.

Online images of death raise questions of ethical viewership, victim privacy and morbid curiosity.

Examining the controversy behind a film's re-imagining of the 1969 Stonewall Inn riot.

The dangers of viewing activists' interruption of Bernie Sanders at a Seattle rally from a single perspective.

Seventy years later, the Hiroshima bombing's legacy requires a reexamination.

Facebook's patent for new analytical tools encourages discriminatory lending practices.

Renewed understandings of pedophilia require new approaches to ending child sex crimes.

The graphic video of Samuel Dubose's killing by a Cincinatti policeman raises questions of how audiences should react to death.

Reflections on being an outsider while studying the conflict in Bosnia.

The Ivy League has always been associated with high status. It is the elite of the United States higher education system, boasting some of the most successful graduates in the world. Alumni from schools like Harvard and Yale have gone on to become politicians, doctors, artists and a variety of other accomplished careers. Yet, in recent … Continue reading "The Ivy-Wall Street Pipeline"

The centrality of truth, untruth and the observer in Kosovo today.

Dismissed by some as pro-life fear-mongering, evaluating Planned Parenthood's fetal tissue donation program can actually serve pro-choice goals.

He had a “Muslim name.” He may have been depressed. Perhaps he was using drugs and alcohol. He visited Jordan in 2014. He had an upcoming court date for a DUI charge. And, above all, he was a Muslim.

Seventy years after the Trinity nuclear test, remembering the victims of atomic warfare is of utmost importance.

Kosovo's parallel education system demonstrates the state of memory and competitive history in the country.

The release of author Harper Lee’s long-awaited second novel, Go Set a Watchman, has sparked controversy even before hitting the shelves. Central among these controversies is the revelation that Watchman’s Atticus Finch, a celebrated character from Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, is portrayed as a harsh racist, more akin to the Ku Klux Klan than the defense against racism with … Continue reading "Whiteness and Go Set a Watchman"