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For this year’s G20 summit, Argentinian President Mauricio Macri hosted the other nineteen members of the Group Twenty in Buenos Aires. Starting November 30, its meetings were marked with…
The U.S. has become an energy superpower due to the growing shale gas industry. This series will cover the impact of shale gas from three vantage points, beginning with…
The practice of gerrymandering — defined as "to divide or arrange (a territorial unit) into election districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number…
U.S. prisons aren’t like other prisons — and by no means is that a compliment or a reference to “American Exceptionalism.” U.S. prisons draw to mind the grim and…
With over a week having passed since the 2018 midterm elections, the vast majority of results have been determined, with the Democrats amassing a “blue wave” in the House…
On January 7, 2015, two men forced their way into the office of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The perpetrators killed 12 people and injured 11. It was…
The relationship between President Donald Trump of the United States and President Emmanuel Macron of France seemed to be remarkably strong at the start of this year, especially during…
An article published in The Economist on November 15th, 2018, discusses the implications of a disturbing new survey, conducted in 2016: “more than half of all Americans no longer…
Since 2011, a coalition of Republicans and breakaway conservative Democrats in the New York State Senate has stymied much of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (pictured in cover photo) left-leaning legislative agenda. Now, Gov. Cuomo has near-complete control over the legislative agenda, since the Democrats, having seized the State Senate in last Tuesday’s midterm elections, now run the entire state government.
Beto O’Rourke, an El Paso native and Ted Cruz’s Democratic challenger for the United States Senate, took both Texas and the nation by storm in 2018. O’Rourke spent months…