Category: Commentary

Of all the new streaming services coming in the next few years, Disney+ raises the most questions. Whenever you ask someone what their current favorite TV show is, it is almost always a show that is not actually aired on television. No, usually it is a Netflix original or an Amazon Prime original; something streamed […]

The extradition bill was written to counter a heinous crime; its other intentions are less admirable. On Feb. 2, 2019, while TU students returned from vacations and made their way into the groove of the spring semester, the city of Hong Kong erupted into chaos over a new extradition bill entering their legislative body. This […]

The bickering between weather services should worry us when other disasters occur. It all began on Sunday, Sept.1 when Donald Trump went on Twitter to warn the American audience about Hurricane Dorian. In his tweet, the president wrote: “In addition to Florida – South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, will most likely be hit […]

Sanders has raised the most money, but Warren’s chances of winning the primary are better. I get it: you’re in college and don’t have time to figure out voter registration and absentee ballots, much less read 500 articles to decide on your favorite candidate in the crowded Democratic field. Lucky for you I’ve written a […]

Disability is largely invisible. It’s not in our media. It’s not in our conversation. And, often, the disability itself is invisible. With so little media representation, you would think that disabled people are a small minority. However, that’s not necessarily the case. Numbers vary, with the Census Bureau saying around 19 percent of the population […]

Doubts of security and abused functionality make SA’s ConnectTU a no go. As freshmen this year have learned, TU really does have an app for that. First, it was the orientation app that told students the orientation schedule (because apparently freshmen can’t be trusted to keep track of a paper schedule?). Now, the app-centric way […]

The worldwide enviromental impact of these fires cannot be overstated. The Amazon — the “lungs of the world,” a rainforest spanning eight countries, the vegetation that accounts for 20 percent of the earth’s oxygen — blazes as around 50,000 fires release the trees’ carbon stores. Smoke from the fires has blackened several cities, including the […]

Greenland would be a financial loss as well as a political conundrum that the US isn’t ready for. According to a story released by the Wall Street Journal on Aug. 16, President Trump has inquired about potentially purchasing Greenland from Denmark. Following this story, Trump administration officials were forced to either double down or dismiss […]

The biggest problems with the start date concern commencement and travel plans for the holidays. On Aug. 18, I looked at the calendar and thought, why am I not in school? All of my friends from OU and OSU were in class, and even local colleges like TCC were back in session. As I looked […]

The conversation surrounding the social media feud has rarely been substantive. One of the general ideas behind the free market is that competition is good for the consumer, and this is arguably true when competition drives prices down and makes products more affordable and accessible. Price-matching, for example, is a recent extension of this phenomenon, […]