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Will the Youth Vote Decide the 2024 Presidential Election?
Amid concerns surrounding high inflation and President Biden’s low approval ratings, many pollsters predicted that the midterm elections...
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Dec 8, 20224 min read


Conservation vs. Concrete: Increasing Green Spaces in America’s Largest Cities
The United States has a historically fraught relationship with green spaces. In the name of Manifest Destiny, the Homestead Act (and...
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Dec 8, 20225 min read


Migrant Domestic Workers in Oman: A Lost Population
Fatmata left her home in Sierra Leone in February of 2020, packing her bags for the Sultanate of Oman in hopes of securing “a better...
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Dec 7, 20225 min read


Students for “Fair” Admissions? Challenging the Myth of Race-Neutral College Placement
In the early 1970s, Allan Bakke was rejected twice by the University of California Davis School of Medicine. Bakke sued the university,...
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Dec 6, 20224 min read


Arrested Development: The Troubled Teen Industry and The United States’ Failure to Protect its Child
When Haley Hedrick was 16 years old, she was awoken one night to a nightmare scenario. Two strangers were standing in her bedroom,...
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Dec 3, 20225 min read


Conservative Social Media—A New Norm?
The January 6th insurrection on the US Capitol will go down in history as perhaps the best example of the dangers of extremism in the US...
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Dec 3, 20225 min read


To Rebuild or Not to Rebuild: Examining Disaster Policy in the Wake of Hurricane Ian
When Hurricane Ian made landfall near Cayo Costa, Florida on September 28, 2022, it brought storm, sea, and devastation. The areas most...
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Dec 3, 20225 min read


The Bittersweet Truth: The Sugar Industry’s Manipulation of Nutrition Guidelines
America’s favorite treat, sugar, is not as sweet as it seems. The sugar industry’s manipulation of a 1960s research review, published in...
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Dec 3, 20226 min read


Beyond The Numbers: What GDP Can’t Tell You About Happiness
Since the industrial revolution, wealth has been used as a way to measure a country’s prosperity—income has been synonymous with...
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Dec 1, 20224 min read


Double Standards: Why Do We Care Less About War in the Global South?
Since the outset of the occupation of Ukraine, the Western world has remained hypervigilant, immersed in constant media coverage and...
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Dec 1, 20225 min read


Cash Bail and Incarceration Activism: An Interview with Robin Steinberg
Robin Steinberg is the founder and CEO of The Bail Project, a national organization that utilizes a revolving bail fund model to bail...
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Nov 30, 20225 min read


The Case for Permitting Reform
At $369 billion, the recent Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the single biggest investment to fight climate change in American history....
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Nov 29, 20224 min read


Education Reform Must Not Be Ignored In The Fight For Racial Justice
Children are unfortunately exceptionally effective political pawns. According to the 2020 US Census, there are 63 million Americans with...
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Nov 29, 20226 min read


How You Could Have Predicted Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Other Lessons in Media Signaling
As we now well know, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Three months earlier to the day, on December 24, Russia made a very...
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Nov 29, 20224 min read


Drought in the Fertile Crescent
“The Hour will not occur until the Euphrates recedes, uncovering a mountain of gold over which people will fight. Ninety-nine out of...
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Nov 29, 20223 min read


The Death of The Queen and the Legacy of the British Empire
When Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, 2022, the world seemed to come to a brief but crashing halt. While many leaders from across...
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Nov 22, 20224 min read


The Global Rise of Quiet Quitting
It is no secret that the culture surrounding work has shifted in the wake of the Covid pandemic. The American labor shortage has occurred...
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Nov 21, 20224 min read


Re-evaluating Recycling in the United States
Consider the life of a disposable plastic plate. If the plate was used in New York City, it should go in the recycling bin only after it...
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Nov 18, 20225 min read


Ethiopia: A Country in Crisis
Editors’ Note: On November 2, 2022, after this article was written, a peace deal between the TPLF and Ethiopia was signed. Although the...
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Nov 18, 20227 min read


As the World Crumbles, Who Will Foot the Bill?
It happened at night. The people awoke as the walls began to shake, disrupting what would otherwise have been a normal August night in...
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Nov 18, 20225 min read
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