Author Archives: Daniel Payne

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...

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...

In the February 14th edition of this paper, opinion columnist Julia Grant took on the noble task of bridging the partisan divide in American politics. As...

Dear editor, As a student-activist, I feel that I must take issue with the opinion article (“The battlefield in the voting booth, not the streets”...

In Spanish, we have a popular saying that could be translated as “tell me who you walk with, and I’ll tell you who you are.” I promise it sounds...