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Mutual Failures: The Clintons, the GOP, and Sexual Violence
Last November, Hillary Clinton declared that “Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” In...
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Mar 23, 20167 min read


Journalism’s New Reality
Technology has irrefutably and dramatically transformed the journalism industry in the past 20 years. Access to media has evolved from...
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Mar 23, 20166 min read


The Ethics of Solitary Confinement
On July 31, 2009, American journalist Sarah Shourd was hiking in Northern Iraq with friends when she was captured by Iranian soldiers and...
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Mar 21, 20164 min read


The Role of Memes in Politics
It is well known that social media has come to play an irrefutably large role in campaigning and politics. From Hillary Clinton and Jeb...
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Mar 19, 20164 min read


Zika and the Abortion Rights Debate
What happens when a country without legal abortion tells women not to get pregnant? This was the question many asked when government...
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Mar 18, 20165 min read


Race, Sports, and the Aftermath of Super Bowl 50
Super Bowl 50 was widely criticized as a tedious and underwhelming culmination of the 2015 season. The game drew three million fewer...
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Mar 15, 20165 min read


Japan’s Military-Manga Complex
Manga, Japan’s infamous cartoon characters, are now being employed as something new: military weapons. The display of charming, young...
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Mar 9, 20164 min read


Facebook’s Free Basics: The Trade-off Between Digital Equality and Net Neutrality
Upon its inception, Facebook instantly took America by storm — sweeping across college campuses, captivating the youth demographic, and,...
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Mar 8, 20165 min read


Beyond the Oscars: Probing the Unrepresentative Film Industry
Every year, the front three or four rows of the Dolby Theater, the permanent home of the Academy Awards, are reserved for nominees, past...
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Mar 1, 20167 min read


Military Fertility in the Era of Egg-Freezing
In December of 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that the New Year would bring an end to restrictions on women in the US...
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Feb 24, 20166 min read


Should Politics Be Fun?
Politics, it has long been said, is sports for nerds. Debates and primaries are the big games, with political junkies quick to look up...
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Feb 24, 20164 min read


Fighting Fire With Brimstone: The Satanic Left and the Instrumentalization of Religious Freedom
Seen most profoundly in the 2014 Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case, and iterated frequently in both political rhetoric and legal decisions,...
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Feb 2, 20164 min read


Japan’s Lost Generation
Jun, an eighteen-year-old student from a Tokyo suburb, was in despair. He had just failed the entrance examination for the national...
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Jan 28, 20165 min read


Donald Trump: America’s Guest-Star
It was hard to ignore CNN’s attempts to publicize the most recent Republican debate. The cable news channel released an ad nearly a month...
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Jan 23, 20164 min read


The American Disconnection with the Supreme Court
This spring, the Supreme Court will hear its first major abortion case since 2007. The case was brought by several abortion providers and...
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Dec 5, 20155 min read


Regulating Reproduction: Embryo Custody Versus Abortion
Thecase centered on Dr. Mimi C. Lee and Stephen Findley, her ex-husband. Before their wedding, Lee was diagnosed with breast cancer and...
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Dec 5, 20155 min read


When Bad People Make Good Art
Shia LaBeouf, erstwhile child movie star of Even Stevens and Transformers fame, surprised the internet with a performance art piece...
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Dec 4, 20154 min read


Winning With No One: Social Conservatism in an Age of Low Turnout
In June of 2015, when the Supreme Court finally legalized same-sex marriage, many activists began celebrating the end of the culture...
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Dec 3, 20155 min read


Romantic Republicans: The Peculiar Nostalgia of the GOP
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famed novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway proclaims to Jay Gatsby, “’You can’t repeat the past.” Gatsby...
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Dec 3, 20155 min read


After Obergefell, Anti-Discrimination Becomes Activists’ New Target
In 2011, James Pittman, a gay man from Missouri, was fired from his position at Cook Paper Recycling Corporation. He sued the company,...
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Nov 22, 20154 min read
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