AMP
The Official Student Opinion and Satire Magazine of UTD
Whooshing Red
Whooshing Red: In American Crosshairs
“America is back,” President Biden proudly declared to the Munich Security Conference, an annual meeting on Western defense policy, on February 19th. Six days later, his administration dropped seven 500-pound bombs on a small building complex in eastern Syria. Congress wasn’t notified of these strikes until over 48 hours after they had been launched. The […]
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The Winter, The Blackouts, and The Apocalypse
In Houston, a suburban family finds their three children dead in a house fire. In Harris County, at least 300 were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning. In the same city, a 60-year-old unhoused man is found dead, having frozen to death. Per the Washington Post, at least 58 people died in this month’s winter storms […]
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White Insurrection, an American Institution
It’s November 10th, 1898. The office of an opposition newspaper is burned to the ground. The newly-elected government is forced to resign at gunpoint. Prominent dissenters are put on a kill list and detained throughout the city. This is just the beginning of the repression. The city is Wilmington, North Carolina. The putschists are armed […]
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Whooshing Red: America After the Rain
So much relies on a pint of Austin Eastciders and a pack of American Spirit menthols on an election night. The people the next table over analyzed at each other, talking about how long a certain area on a certain map would stay a certain color. I knew I shouldn’t have been there, but our […]
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Whooshing Red: Beyond the Ballot Box
Voting is a ritual. You walk into the polling place, take your seemingly-incomprehensible sheet of bubbles and numbers, slide it into the machine that makes sense of the chaos, and that’s the climax of two to four years of repressed political frustration. Voting is a ritual, and American society is intent on ritualizing it more. […]
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Whooshing Red: Socialism Is…
The Cold War ended with the red flag lowering over the Kremlin in 1991; 30 years later, The Hill reports that 70% of millennials would vote for a socialist. Gallup reports that about half of them prefer socialism over capitalism outright. Three decades of neoliberal hegemony — and the… mixed results thereof — look to […]
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Thank You, Capitalism. Now, Goodbye
Is capitalism really that great? Is socialism really that awful?
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