Does Justice Have a Ceiling?
Recently, the world learned that many of the people it sees on its screens — politicians, billionaires, academics, and Hollywood stars — were associated with the…
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March 3, 2026
Welcome to the Zeitgeist, the NYU Politics Society’s undergraduate opinion publication dedicated to providing a platform for students to learn about and engage with politics and current events.
Mamdani’s Recipe For Disaster: A Heaping Scoop of Rent Freezes with a Dash of Hiking Property Taxes
On February 17, Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled his administration’s $127 billion preliminary budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal year. According to Mamdani, the city is facing…
March 3, 2026
Let’s Build Housing to Win the House
America is engulfed in a national housing crisis — or at least its cities and suburbs are. Discussion of housing affordability has steadily grown in American…
March 3, 2026
The Historical Amnesia Surrounding the U.S. Military Intervention in Nigeria
On December 25, 2025, Donald Trump, with the Nigerian government’s approval, ordered the launch of U.S. military airstrikes from the Gulf of Guinea to target the…
March 3, 2026
Attention MAHA: Shame Won’t Sell Healthy Eating
On Super Bowl Sunday, professional boxer Mike Tyson told an audience of over 100 million Americans, “I was so fat and nasty. I would eat anything.”…
March 3, 2026
92,600 Beds and Counting
On Feb. 13, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released a memo outlining the “Detention Reengineering Initiative,” a plan to expand detention capacity from roughly 70,000…
February 24, 2026
The SAVE Act: The Short-Term Play That Could Backfire
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., reads notes before speaking about the SAVE America Act to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026, in…
February 24, 2026
Privilege for the National Icon: Why China’s Nationality Law Bends for Gold
When Eileen Gu glided onto the slopes of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, the atmosphere was markedly different from the feverish adulation…
February 24, 2026
Missing the Bullseye: Why Trump’s Wall Street Ban Won’t Fix the Housing Crisis
Imagine trying to put out a forest fire by banning matches. Fruitless, right? That faulty logic is precisely what dooms President Donald Trump’s new executive…
February 24, 2026
Blinding a Nation’s Last Hope
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan has spent more than two years locked away in solitary confinement. Since his arrest in August 2023…
February 24, 2026
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