Good Beginnings, Great Bylines
Volume 49 Issue 2 — September 20th, 2024
The Indy is here this week with another incredible issue. Debuts abound; prose, journalism, and bylines are impeccable as always. We are pleased to share all this, and more, with you.
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Featured Articles
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For Metro in the Mooncake Issue, Cameron Leo B’25 interviews Representative Cherie Cruz about Rhode Island’s recent primaries, the entrenched political machine, and her experiences as a progressive candidate. Cruz reflects on the power dynamics within electoral politics and shares her commitment to advocating for housing justice and criminal legal reform.
“If you’re going to be an independent voice, you’re going to need the power of the people behind you.”
Read People, Power, and the Political Machine in print or online here.
Illustration by Sofia Schreiber.
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For Feats of Issue 2, Natalie Svob B‘27 considers the Arizona towns of Jerome and Clarkdale, designed by the United Verde Copper Company to trap immigrants like her grandparents with visions of an isolated mining utopia:
“The draw for this labor force is based on the simplicity of Jerome and Clarkdale as planned communities and the simple contract between them and their inhabitants:
Work the mine and a fruitful American life is possible.“
Read in My Walkable Ghost Town print or online here.
Illustration by Zoe Rudolph-Larrea.
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For World in the Mooncake Issue, Peter Zettl B’28 examines the role of the Alternate für Deutschland (AfD), a right wing party, in utilizing radical misinformation to create a polarized system in Germany. Zettl interrogates where a German Muslim falls in the country’s climate and connects the AfD propaganda machine——which is rooted in racist, xenophobic, transphobic, anti-immigration, anti-Palestine, and pro-Israel ideation——to the radical American right wing, which employs similar tactics to attract moderate citizens.
“The implications these narratives have for German Muslims are minatory and exemplify once again that no Arab or Muslim immigrant in Germany will ever escape being labeled as ‘German on probation.’”
Read in Vindicating Ethics of Society in print or online here.
Illustration by Luca Suarez.
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Also in this week’s issue:
Ephemera
“Fragmentation” by Selim Kutlu B/R’29
Schema
“Predictive Text” by Lucas Galarza B’25
Literary
“Close to the Heart” by Elena Jiang B’27
Week in Review
“Week in Small But Mighty” by Ilan Brusso B’27 and Ben Flaumenhaft B’27
Science & Technology
“How Snakes Become Monsters” by Adia Colvin B’26
Arts
“Tenderness in the Time of Oligarchs” by THE OIL MAN B’26
Dear Indy
“Join the Cult of Domesticity” by ***** ***** B’27