Ella Cuneo
Ivy Reed, Opinion Section Editor
May 6, 2021
Suppose a worker needed to dig a hole,” explained Professor Ian Fillmore, who teaches economics at Washington University in St. Louis. “If he uses just his hands, it will take a long time. But if we give the worker a shovel (which is a piece of capital) then he suddenly becomes more productive.” Productivity, in the traditional economic sense, is a ratio of worker inputs to outputs. If more outputs...
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People hold banners and shout slogans as they protest for the second day against the Constitutional Court ruling on tightening the abortion law next to the Law and Justice chairman house, Jaroslaw Kaczynski on October 23, 2020 in Warsaw, Poland. Yesterday, the country's Constitutional Tribunal ruled in favour of a ban on abortions in cases of fetal defects, tightening Poland's restrictive abortion laws even further. The decision means that abortions will only be permitted in cases of rape, incest or when the mother's health is at risk.
March 16, 2021
In last October, Poland had issued a ban on aborting babies that had fetal defects— the majority of abortions which in Poland. Even prior to the ban, Poland had very strict restrictions on abortions involving fetal defects. Poland roughly has 2,000 legal abortions every year, while there are as many as 200,000 women who get abortions illegally at home or aboard in some other country. Now, however,...
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A snow-covered downtown Dallas, Texas seen from South Houston Street on Monday, February 15, 2021.
Disha Chatterjee, Feature Section Editor
March 7, 2021
Wrapped in jackets and blankets, we sat in darkness, sipping water we filled up in bottles beforehand. Visiting family in Houston over the long weekend seemed like a good idea-- that is, until Winter Storm Uri devastated Texas and left my family and millions of others powerless and without running water. Deaths were caused from carbon monoxide poisoning, hypothermia, and car crashes. A slew of problems...
