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You may have heard, whether at the beginning of the year or the past weeks, that politicians want to defund the arts. From bills in the state legislature to the proposed budget just released by the White House, the notion that the arts are not a positive investment for government is rampant. This, of course,...

If you compare a map of the counties stretching from southern New York to North Mississippi that the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) provides economic...

Women’s passion for equality and a true voice ravaged the country back in January. Even in our tiny, little corner of the world here in Oxford, women’s...

On March 8, 2017, The Daily Mississippian published an opinion piece titled, “The CIA, your smart TV and you,” that is riddled with fallacies and inaccurate...

When it comes to doing good in the world, we sometimes forget that it can be done outside of the ideological sphere. I, guiltier than most, often try to...

The op-ed “Secret Surveillance: The CIA, your smart TV and you” makes some extremely inaccurate allegations that the students and faculty of the Center...

To reject what seems foreign is an undoubtedly instinctual human trait. Tribes, empires and nations have always divided what they defined as “us” from...

If you are a complete Netflix or Disney fanatic like me, then you obviously know that the 1995 original Disney film “Heavyweights” was recently...

I have long dreaded this day. I was hoping that it wouldn’t come, but it’s here. It’s time to don our tinfoil hats, because it looks like that crazy...

On Thursday, March 2nd The Daily Mississippian published an opinion piece by Daniel Payne where he challenges the idea the Republican Party is the party...