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Platforms like X, Reddit, and Facebook have become the front lines of a battle to control the narrative surrounding the conflict between Israel and Palestine. On October 17, an explosion…
As New York City grapples with an unprecedented influx of migrants, it is becoming increasingly clear that its leadership is failing in their response to this crisis. The city’s inability…
Much attention has been drawn to the growing gig economy and its implications for the broader labor market. However the plight of gig workers is often framed in a way…
President Biden recently made history as the first sitting U.S. president to join a picket line during the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) historic strike in September. Past presidents have shied…
Muslims have long been second class citizens in America. This was made evident in the post-9/11 years, in the lead up to the Iraq War, and the systematic surveillance of…
Last year, the National Football League (NFL) drew in 16.7 million cumulative viewers. The 2019 Cricket World Cup, the latest installment of cricket’s marquee event, drew in 706 million unique…
In 2016, Americans used hashtags such as #politics, #maga, and #Trump to communicate in anticipation of the upcoming presidential election. They didn’t realize they were actually speaking to Russian trolls,…
Every presidential election cycle, I get unreasonably excited to watch presidential debates. Something about the lack of coherence, the dodging of questions, and the overall contentious nature of the event…
If the fiasco in the House of Representatives during the past two weeks has taught us anything, it is that no one wants to deal with the headache of being…
For the politically informed, the classic conservative Republican agenda is pretty easy to summarize. From the middle of the 20th century when the modern conception of the party came to…