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Introduction
This January, tens of thousands of acres burned in Southern California, claiming neighborhoods, businesses, schools, and lives. The devastation began on the morning of January 7, 2025, with the Palisades Fire—the largest of a series of ferocious blazes—followed by the Eaton Fire, which flared up in the evening. Climate experts and fire officials emphasized the role of cli...
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Anneisha Williams is a 38-year-old woman from Los Angeles County raising six children. She works full-time at Jack in the Box and is an in-home caregiver. A hacker stole $500 from her checking account, and her bank refused to provide a refund [1]. Due to her distrust of the banking system, she joined the approximately 5 percent of Californians who have no bank account [2]. Unbanked people like Ann...
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Nestled in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, just south of city hall, Little Tokyo is a cultural and civic center for Japanese Americans living in Southern California [1]. Spanning about five city blocks, Little Tokyo is home to anime-themed shops, traditional Japanese restaurants, and the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) — the first museum in the country dedicated to the Japanese A...
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It is an unfortunate truth that nothing unites a community like tragedy. On the morning of January 7, 2025, the record-breaking Eaton and Palisades fires started their month-long destruction that claimed over 37,000 acres and 18,000 structures [1]. Los Angeles’s unique communities became a united force of nature, fighting the fires and supporting their neighbors. First responders put themselves ...
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Photographed by: Aimee Friloux
The United States is the only democracy in the world that disenfranchises its citizens on the basis of their residency in its capital city, Washington, D.C. If a Washingtonian were to move to any of the U.S.’ 50 states, they would be afforded the kind of democratic representation they could only dream of having in their home district: 2 senators, 1...
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On December 8, 2024, the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its allies overthrew the regime of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The regime change marked the end of forty-five years of repressive rule by the al-Assad family and fourteen years of civil war [1]. Assad was granted asylum in Russia, one of his key allies throughout the war [2]. His fall was met with great jubilation as th...
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From Canada to Europe and even as far as East Asia, right-wing governments are gaining momentum amid a broader wave of political upheaval reshaping governments worldwide.
Nowhere is this shift more evident than in the Group of Seven (G7), an informal bloc of industrialized liberal democracies including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States that meets a...
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“Out with all of them,” Argentine President Javier Milei exclaimed in another one of his tirades against the political elite in Argentina—a message indicating the drastic change he sought to bring [1]. Elected in 2023, President Javier Milei has worked to fix the economy with his radical “anarcho-capitalist” reforms. His fiscal policies have faced notable backlash due to their radical ap...
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Regional Economic Outlook: Not very encouraging.
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is one of the poorest regions in the world today, with low rates of economic growth and industrialization relative to emerging markets and developing economies in other regions across the globe. Indeed, it features the largest proportion of people living in poverty in the world [1]. In 2018, the average per capi...
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In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed to combat threats from the Soviet Union. While the USSR has since dissolved, the organization has shifted to protecting its members against Russia. NATO’s mission statement is to “safeguard the freedom and security of all its members” through military and political action, and the organization has proven itself rel...