Guest Columnist: Mac Malambri

Myrtle Beach is, according to US News, the fastest growing place in the country. Accordingly, we have been coping with insufficient infrastructure. This has been answered with more roads and wider highways. Yet, traffic is still getting worse. The issue is cars have no role in sustainable development. Studies have shown that in urban areas, more cars cause more traffic because of something called induced deman...

New technology is always scapegoated for society’s problems; however, those problems were already there. Social media–media that allows for immediate bidirectional communication with little to no gatekeeping – did not change humanity; rather, it demonstrated more plainly that people are cruel.  Social media is often blamed for – more specifically – consumerism, bullying, and toxicity. While s...

Imagine doing a family puzzle. Puzzles should be a fun activity with room for everyone’s contributions; unlike a game, everyone wins. Yet, before the first piece is placed, the debate is begun: To start on with the center pieces first or to start with the edge first, that is the question. To the unaccustomed, it may appear that some people could work on the center objects and others on the edge;...

While everyone’s experience of middle school varied, there is one trait to which every veteran of those years can relate: Fear of Missing Out. From every random club to every boring game to even watching two individuals punch away their own future as they aim for each other, people want to experience everything. People fear missing out so much that being left out can destroy friendships and hurt re...

Have you ever been in line for a roller coaster and then fled upon reaching the ride? Despite all the time you invested in that line, all the money spent on that ticket, you chose to walk about from the promised excitement you thought would be so rewarding. Why? Because of fear. The odds of death or injury on most amusement park rides is next to nothing; all the people in front of you were just fin...

As the recent attack on the Capitol Building demonstrates, democracy as we know it is being pushed to the limit these days. But the reason is not just a divisive president able to rally an angry base by spreading lies about fraudulent election results on social media. While no wide-spread fraud has ever been proven, our country’s messed up election system does need to be fixed.  The winner i...

A curve as a concept depends on the assertion that an individual’s prosperity is tied to the prosperity of their peers.  Curves take the difference between the highest score in the class and a 100, and give all of those points to everyone. They artificially increase everyone’s grades without requiring any effort for them. Because curves change the purpose of an assessment from assessing knowl...

A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for justice. Justice is the concept of everyone getting what they deserve. It is fair to say that we do not live in a very just society under President Donald J. Trump. First, the way we reward labor in our society is fundamentally at odds with the value of that labor. Some of the richest Americans have not produced anything tangible in decades. They either won it...