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Morgan Moseley, Mar 13, 2024
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Justin Attlesey, Mar 12, 2024
The Republican Party is reaching the end of a transformation nearly a decade long. As Donald Trump prepares to make his third run at the presidency, only 33% of Americans view him favorably, yet that percentage is higher than any of his Republican competitors. Per the same polling, 48% of Republicans believe that “we need a leader who is willing to break some rules if that’s what it ta...
U.S.
Sam Grech, Feb 12, 2024
Mitigated wealth inequality is not necessarily problematic. Some even argue that, under capitalism, wealth inequality is benign. Those who take calculated risks and apply themselves get rewarded financially, and, in turn, surpass those who do not take risks or provide value to the economy. Yet, in the United States, the top 10% now owns 70% of all U.S. wealth and since 2007, household wealth decre...
U.S.
Morgan Moseley, Feb 6, 2024
Fentanyl, being 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, is known to be the most lethal painkiller [1]. The drug is illegally imported from China and smuggled through the US-Mexico border. In 2022, more than 11,000 pounds of fentanyl made its way into the U.S., and more than half of it came right through the border of Mexico and San Diego [2]. Even with recent government crackdowns, fentanyl is ...
U.S.
Andrew Green, Jan 30, 2024
Gerontocracy is a form of governing that translates to “rule by elders” [1]. While it is not inherently undemocratic, the consequences of gerontocracy—especially in the U.S.—are very apparent. The decreasing generational diversity seen in D.C. has led to a severed connection between the older members of Congress and the younger, but populous generation of Americans. Misrepr...
U.S.
Kate Rodgers, Jan 25, 2024
It is 6:30PM on a Tuesday night in 1968. You and twenty-seven million other Americans tune in to watch Walter Cronkite anchor CBS Evening News. For those who are not fans of ‘the most trusted man in America,’ there are only two other options for television news – ABC and NBC. Big news stories immediately become mass cultural events, and most people operate on the same playing fie...
World
Aadit Pareek, Mar 12, 2024
From November 2020 to January 2021, much of the world watched in disbelief as one of its beacons of democracy teetered to the brink of collapse. Donald Trump and his supporters repeated falsehoods about the illegitimacy of the 2020 election which ultimately culminated in an unsuccessful attempt to overturn the results of a democratic election. Ironically just eight weeks later, the world watched i...
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Delilah Hirshland, Feb 23, 2024
On October 7th, 2023, the world witnessed the largest terrorist attack in Israel’s history and the largest massacre of the Jews since the Holocaust. Attendees of music festivals were brutally murdered, hundreds of rockets were fired into southern Israel, more than 15 kibbutzim were ravished, and hundreds were kidnapped, all by Hamas, the organization that rules Gaza and is considered a terro...
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Amelia Cataldi, Feb 15, 2024
On October 7, 2023 Hamas achieved the impossible: an effective and brutal attack on Israel, a state long known for its security prowess and strongman leadership. The attack was catastrophic for Israelis and promised retaliation. It came at a historically weak time for Israel, which was in the midst of reorganizing its legislature. The tensions in Gaza have spilled over into neighboring states prov...
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Tongtong Zhang, Feb 12, 2024
As one of the most failed, fragile, and war-torn states in Africa and across the world, Sudan has followed a “one step forward, two steps backward” pattern in its quest for peace. Large-scale attacks and genocide between two major factions—the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), its current leader, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—have continued since the outbreak of another rou...
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Samuel Motzkin, Jan 23, 2024
Venezuela was once hailed as a pillar of democratic resilience. In 1978, it stood among the mere three out of twenty Latin American nations that practiced democratic governance [1]. While the region was plagued with relative instability, over the next three decades, Venezuela remained resolute in its commitment to democratic principles. However, it too was ultimately unable to withstand the recent...