After four years of an administration that seemed not only indifferent but actively hostile to questions of environmental justice (EJ), the prospect of a Biden administration carries the hope of a long-needed course correction. Indeed President-Elect Joe BidenJoe BidenNew York Post editorial board calls on President Trump to ‘start thinking’ […]
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GUEST ROOM | To Cornell: Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep
Three weeks ago, I finally returned home to my family in Maryland after living in Ithaca for four long months. I had been in Ithaca since early August, the beginning of residential staff training, and with no fall break in sight, those four months had dragged on until I was […]
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The Promises I Made (and Broke) to My Dying Mom
“I promise I will fix my marriage and we will have babies.” I repeated some version of this over and over to my mother as she lay in a hospice bed in the living room of our house. I was on the 3 a.m. shift while the rest of my […]