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All content by Grace Pulliam
This photo shows the Netflix Apple TV app icon, in South Orange, N.J. Netflix, a vocal opponent of Comcast's failed bid for Time Warner Cable, on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 said it supports Charter Communications' bid to do the same in a deal that would create another cable giant. (AP Photo/Dan Goodman)

Opinion: Escapist fantasies benefit society, individuals alike as a coping mechanism

By Grace Pulliam
July 23, 2020
tik tok

Opinion: Banning TikTok goes against constitutional rights, dangerous precedent for unchecked digital censorship

By Grace Pulliam
July 17, 2020
The bell tower on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 on LSU's campus.

Opinion: LSU must protect its international students from deportation at all costs

By Grace Pulliam
July 14, 2020
FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2019, file photo, the Washington Redskins logo is seen on FedEx Field prior to an NFL football game between the New York Giants and the Redskins in Landover, Md. Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says Seattle-based Amazon will begin pulling Redskins team merchandise from its online marketplace. Ferguson urged the online giant to remove such merchandise it because of growing calls for the team to change what he called their use of a racial slur in the name. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally, File)

Opinion: Washington Redskins’ ‘dated, offensive’ name change long overdue

By Grace Pulliam
July 10, 2020
An Alligator opens its mouth Aug. 22, 2013 at LSU's Alligator Research Station.

Opinion: La. Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, ‘nuisance hunter’ shouldn’t have euthanized Lakeview alligator

By Grace Pulliam
July 7, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, listen. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Opinion: Pandemic response should be treated as humanitarian, not partisan issue

By Grace Pulliam
July 4, 2020
FILE - This combination of photos shows logos for social media platforms, from left, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The company behind Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Dove soap and a host of other consumer products says it will stop advertising on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in the U.S. through at least the end of 2020 because of the amount of hate speech online. (AP Photo)

Opinion: Social media activism not meant to be strictly ‘slacktivism,’ new revolution is digital

By Grace Pulliam
July 2, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks before he signs the coronavirus stimulus relief package in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, March 27, 2020, in Washington. Listening are from left, Larry Kudlow, White House chief economic adviser, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarty of Calif. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Opinion: Ableism remains implicit in leftist anti-Trump rhetoric

By Grace Pulliam
June 26, 2020
The Juneteenth flag flies in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The Juneteenth flag commemorating the day that slavery ended in the U.S. will fly over the Wisconsin Capitol for the first time in state's history, Gov. Tony Evers announced Wednesday. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Opinion: Juneteenth deserves our attention this year

By Grace Pulliam
June 23, 2020
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Opinion: What it means to be a columnist

By Grace Pulliam
June 22, 2020
Middleton Library sits in the Quad on Friday, November 15, 2019.

Opinion: Renaming Middleton Library is a necessary step for racial progress on LSU campus

By Grace Pulliam
June 16, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden smiles while being introduced at a campaign event at Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Opinion: An open letter to Joe Biden in response to his racist tendencies

By Grace Pulliam
June 13, 2020
The LSU Memorial Tower operates during regular business hours on LSU's campus on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018.

Opinion: ‘Second wave’ of COVID-19 may jeopardize LSU reopening in the fall

By Grace Pulliam
June 10, 2020
'LSU Together' letter

Opinion: ‘Not a statement, not a stand’: LSU Administration misses the mark in ‘Together’ letter

By Grace Pulliam
June 8, 2020
Blind followers cartoon 

Opinion: Biden’s vice president pick doesn’t really matter, won’t change election outcome

By Grace Pulliam
April 24, 2020
Extrovert/introvert cartoon 

Opinion: This lockdown reminds us that labels like “introvert” and “extrovert” are trivial

By Grace Pulliam
April 16, 2020
streaming wars

Opinion: Binge-watching isn’t a great quarantine coping mechanism, doesn’t solve anything

By Grace Pulliam
April 7, 2020
patriarchal cinema cartoon 

Opinion: The “Final Girl” horror trope is rooted in misogyny, needs to be examined

By Grace Pulliam
April 4, 2020
Trash cartoon 

Opinion: Casting an older woman on “The Bachelorette” is insincere, done for drama, not representation

By Grace Pulliam
March 25, 2020
Sad jokes cartoon 

Opinion: Depression memes are damaging, offer no real benefit to creators or audience

By Grace Pulliam
March 10, 2020
Danger zone cartoon 

Opinion: LSU needs to help students, especially female students, feel safe on campus at night

By Grace Pulliam
March 7, 2020
Democrats struggling to unify the party

Opinion: Democrats need to band together, choose a main presidential candidate soon

By Grace Pulliam
March 1, 2020
It's hard to come out of your shell

Opinion: The ‘college years are the best years of your life’ mindset is misleading, ends in disappointment

By Grace Pulliam
February 21, 2020
Tinder's unlikely origin

Opinion: Tinder, along with other online dating apps, is actually great for college students

By Grace Pulliam
February 14, 2020
FILE - In this March 21, 2018, file photo, Gayle Benson, widow of NFL New Orleans Saints and NBA New Orleans Pelicans owner Tom Benson, walks down the steps to receive his casket with New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond for visitation at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. Attorneys for several men suing the Roman Catholic church say documents they obtained through discovery show that the New Orleans Saints team aided the Archdiocese of New Orleans in its “pattern and practice of concealing its crimes.” (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Opinion: Saints’ hidden emails are raising questions, should be released

By Grace Pulliam
January 28, 2020
royals

Opinion: Sussex abdication sensationalized by press, ultimately not a threat to the Crown

By Grace Pulliam
January 19, 2020