By Dan Kersten If you are a human being who occasionally watches television, then you more than likely have seen ads for medical malpractice attorneys. They’re inescapable. They’re scary. They’re killing you. Okay, I am exaggerating, but malpractice has an incredibly important impact on your health and our nation’s healthcare industry. Medical malpractice payouts represented two percent of healthcare costs in 2009. That may sound like a drop in the bucket, nothing to worry about.…
Blank Spaces (on the Ballot)
By William Cass As college students, many of us will not be voting in the upcoming presidential election. This inaction is the direct result of laziness, or, more commonly, a feeling of apathy toward politics. That being said, I have to advise you to get out and vote. The right to vote is one of the things that differentiates a free country like the United States from a less than free country like North Korea.…
LISTEN UP, REPUBLICANS
By Joseph Gunderson Let me be clear. If the Republican Party heads toward a contested presidential convention in July, get used to saying Madam President Hillary Clinton until 2021, or God forbid, 2025. “Well, at least she’s better than someone like Donald Trump,” you might say. Think again. It’s been a common campaign message for all of the former and current 2016 candidates to tout the importance of this election. We’ve heard rhetoric ranging from…
The Government Bites into Apple
By Kayla Ryan Nothing gives people more sus vibes than when the federal government and its agencies step and intrude on people’s right to privacy. Back in February, while the FBI was investigating the San Bernardino shooting, it determined and publicly declared that there was no way for investigators to access information stored on the iPhone of one of the shooters, which was taken from the scene as evidence.The FBI requested that Apple design, in…
Deer Diplomacy
By Billy Schneider Many of you may remember that the Binghamton Review published an article last semester regarding the precarious situation facing the deer in our nature preserve. At the time many readers were completely un-aware of this problem, and the issue preceded a surge of student interest in helping to protect the preserve. Perhaps blinded by complex ecology, god complexes, good intentions, or classic peer pressure, numerous students agreed en masse that systematic killing…
Disarm the Police: A Plea for Common Sense Gun Reform
By Sean Glendon It seems that every day a new headline hits the news – a police officer has killed a civilian, who, more often than not, was a minority. As I scrolled through my Facebook feed I was inspired by everybody making very long-winded posts to do something, so I’m writing this article which will surely bring significant change and reform. My first proposed solution to this epidemic was that police should be required…
B.S Doesn’t Go Far Enough
By Joseph GunderStalin We know about unequal opportunity. We know that inflation isn’t high enough. We know about the failure of the rich man to give half of his assets to the poor man standing next to him to equalize their footing. We know that the sameness of the population rests on the method of taking away from those evil capitalists of the top one tenth of the one tenth of the one tenth of…
ABCs of the Left
By The Binghamton Review Staff A – Anthropology major: What degree could be more useful than anthropology? Accounting, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, Management, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Physics, Psychology. B – Black Lives Matter: We’ll be protesting Pipe Dream on Tuesday and we demand a full apology for something vaguely racist. C – Cultural Appropriation: Eminem must be shot. D – Debt forgiveness: Forgive it all, no matter how much it ruins the world economy. E…