Growing up it seemed so natural to me that America had 50 states—it was an even, balanced number. But as I started learning history in…
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Sight. Sight. Sound. Smell. Taste. Touch. Since the 1940s, major marketing corporations have studied ways to appeal to our five senses to convince us to buy. Today, manipulating…
“Two-thousand and eighty-five votes in favor, zero against, and one abstention. [The bill is] passed!” On March 11, 2021, nearly 3,000 Chinese lawmakers passed the…
For eight years, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has introduced the same bill in the Senate: the Military Justice Improvement Act (MJIA). Despite the…
On March 2, as congressmembers considered the For the People Act, a bill that would enact the most comprehensive expansion of voting sights in the…
March 2021 was an eventful month for abortion in the news. On March 3, The New York Times published an opinion article outlining the political…
Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo, Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas: what do all these men, Democrats and Republicans alike, have in common?…
The holy grail of conflict management has always been between Israel and Palestine; it is the most shining accomplishment for any individual or state mediator.…
The classic postcard image of beautiful wide, sandy beaches in California is under threat by climate change. Climate change is irrevocably changing the California coastline…
Launch yourself back into your first grade class and imagine this: Your teacher asks the class, “What’s four plus four?” Simple enough, you raise your…
White America is slowly but surely coming to the realization that when government-created and funded systems fail minorities, the intended systems have not broken; rather,…
Alice De Gentile first heard her mother’s voice when she was seven; due to a congenital cochlear malformation, she was born deaf in both ears.…
This last year has resurfaced issues leading to greater action towards change and exposed new crises that have left Americans feeling fearful of change. The…
In recent years, the world has been focusing its collective policy making efforts towards combating climate change. This is largely because scientists tell us that…
The relentless news cycle fixated on election and presidential transition turmoil made it relatively easy to forget that on October 26th, 2020, the Senate voted…
The coronavirus pandemic may have started in the East, but China, a country with a population four times the size of the United States, kept…
Towards the end of January 2021, there came stock market turbulence that caused the largest mass stock sell off since the onset of the COVID-19…
In April of 1969, the University of California purchased the site that is now People’s Park. Located just blocks away from the University of…