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1 week ago | 
northernexpress.com | Isiah Smith |Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec
Guest Opinion By Isiah Smith, Jr. | April 12, 2025 In 1998, the highly respected scientific journal, The Lancet, published a study that sparked the theory that vaccines cause autism. In 2010, the article was retracted after the editors discovered that the conclusions had been based on fraudulent data from a study involving only 12 children.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
northernexpress.com | Isiah Smith |Rachel Pasche |Ross Boissoneau |Ren Brabenec
Guest Opinion By Isiah Smith, Jr. | Oct. 19, 2024 Some candidates for political office (we won’t say who) have taken to playing James Brown’s iconic but fallaciously titled song, “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World,” at their campaign events. The message cannot be more explicit: Power belongs to men, and women are secondary, maybe even tertiary.
In a sort of gender-based Stockholm syndrome, some women accept the weak role because that’s the way it’s always been.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
northernexpress.com | Isiah Smith |Art Bukowski |Anna Faller |Geri Dietze
Guest Opinion By Isiah Smith, Jr. | Aug. 31, 2024 This differs from the essay I had set out to write. Initially, I was writing a piece titled, “What If He Wasn’t So Wretched.” After finishing the essay and washing my hands, I felt another idea creeping into my peripheral vision, this one about joy. I thought, “He was awful yesterday, he’s wretched today, and he’ll probably be miserable tomorrow.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
northernexpress.com | Isiah Smith |Victor Skinner |Jillian Manning |Greg Tasker
Guest Opinion By Isiah Smith, Jr. | July 13, 2024 The aging fighter, legs apart, knees bent, massive brown shoulders squared, eyes focused on the brooding brown visage before him. He unleashes a right cross with bad intentions, his favorite punch, in the general direction of his younger opponent.
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Feb 17, 2024 | 
northernexpress.com | Isiah Smith |Kierstin Gunsberg |Karl Klockars |Craig Manning
Guest Opinion By Isiah Smith, Jr. | Feb. 17, 2024 The United States and its professional politicians are aging. Joe Biden, 81, and Donald Trump, 77, are the oldest candidates to ever run for re-election as president. The median ages of U.S. senators and representatives are among the oldest on record, and some leaders are facing health questions.
To run for the House, one must be at least 25 years of age, 30 for the Senate, and 35 to seek the presidency.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
northernexpress.com | Isiah Smith |Al Parker |Anna Faller |Ross Boissoneau
Guest Opinion By Isiah Smith, Jr. | Jan. 27, 2024 Two separate events occurred in the last few weeks. The first was when Harvard President Claudine Gay announced she was stepping down just six months into her presidency amid a firestorm of controversy at the university. The second was the annual MLK birthday celebration.
At a glance, these two events seem entirely unrelated. But upon closer examination, it became apparent that they had much in common.
In her Jan.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
northernexpress.com | Isiah Smith |Ross Boissoneau |Art Bukowski |Craig Manning
Guest Opinion By Isiah Smith, Jr. | Jan. 6, 2024 The war is raging in Gaza, and the Middle East is becoming a disaster zone. Daily, the situation grows more dire. The war is well into its third month, and the almost demonic disregard for human life is inexplicable. The casualties on both sides are massive, and as of this writing, the fighting and killing continue unabated.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
northernexpress.com | Isiah Smith |Ross Boissoneau |Anna Faller |Ren Brabenec
Guest Opinion By Isiah Smith, Jr. | Sept. 9, 2023 The Manhattan Project was essentially a collective of brilliant American physicists united for the sole purpose of using science to create a bomb capable of destroying the entire planet. Never has so much raw brain power been dedicated to such a monstrous purpose. Oppenheimer, the movie, reveals that the physicists involved acknowledged this horrific possibility.
Oppenheimer reassured his boss, Gen.
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
northernexpress.com | Isiah Smith |Ren Brabenec |Rachel Pasche |Brighid Driscoll
Guest Opinion By Isiah Smith, Jr. | July 29, 2023 The Supreme Court did not go far enough in ending affirmative action (AA) in college admissions. Instead of being bold and decisive, the Court took the road most traveled.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.
