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There is no denying that accessible parking represents a significant milestone for millions of Americans with disabilities. This breakthrough came with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which required facilities to include disability parking spaces [1]. Typically, one must have a disability parking placard or license plate to park in these areas. To receive such vehicle identification i...
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Photograph by: Keck School News
A Man or A Statistic?
A figure by the name of Yoh resides under an underpass by the 110 freeway in Los Angeles, mere feet away from cars whipping past. He vacantly speaks of a 44-light-year-long piece of concrete and orders from the CIA that restrict him from eating until he has completed a mission. With ankles covered in dirt and hair pres...
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Traditionally, liberals have been regarded as open to different viewpoints and receptive to new ideas. Around six months ago, classical liberal Bill Maher sat down for an interview in which he said, “My politics haven't changed. They've changed” [1]. Maher was referencing the increasingly hostile environment surrounding free speech among the political left. While some may argue...
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Indigenous representation within the U.S. is showing great promise: in 2024, record numbers of Native Americans ran for office alongside increased voter participation and activism. Yet, Trump’s plans to impinge on Native rights would upend the future of progress and policy for not just Indigenous peoples, but the entirety of the U.S. The current state of U.S. relations with Indigenous land and v...
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On January 20, 2025, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the U.S., making quick work of establishing his agenda through several written directives ordering the government to specific actions, also known as executive orders (EOs). One of these EOs was a directive to end birthright citizenship [1]. The move has faced immense legal pushback, prompting injunctions from four federal j...
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During the Cold War, top officials in Washington feared war between China and the Soviet Union [1]. But since the Soviet Union’s fall, Russia and China have increasingly collaborated with the shared interest of undermining American hegemony. The Russo-Ukrainian War has brought China and Russia’s alliance into the spotlight, as the West’s support of Ukraine strengthened partnershi...
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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...