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The Popularity Game: Trump Remains on Top

The Popularity Game: Trump Remains on Top

Avery Schuller, Contributing Writer September 15, 2023

The word “leader” elicits a different image, or individual, for each and every one of us. Oftentimes we tend to think of those that have defied social norms, broken racial barriers or caused ripples...

Lebanon Veers Towards its Breaking Point

Lebanon Veers Towards its Breaking Point

Sophia Mendoza, Contributing Writer September 8, 2023

Aug. 4, 2020: a date forever ingrained into the minds of Lebanese at home and abroad.  This was the date of the Beirut Blast, the nuclear explosion that occurred just off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon’s...

Tucker Carlson Isn’t Going Anywhere

Tucker Carlson Isn’t Going Anywhere

Josephine DeBono, Staff Writer May 5, 2023

Tucker Carlson's ousting from Fox News last week created a sense of relief for many Americans like myself. After all, a MAGA-style Republican who routinely spouted wild conspiracy theories along with white...

Members of the House of Representatives leave after the passage in the House of a bill that would bar federally supported schools and colleges from allowing transgender athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth was male to compete on girls or womens sports teams at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 20, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Call it What it is: The Republican Party’s New Anti-Trans Bill

Ciara Sanders, Staff Writer April 28, 2023

In 1972, President Richard Nixon signed into law Title IX which protects Americans attending federally funded education programs from any sex-based discrimination. Title IX has mainly benefitted women...

The Life and Fate of Evan Gershkovich

The Life and Fate of Evan Gershkovich

Emma McCartan, Staff Writer April 14, 2023

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, there are 363 journalists in prisons across the globe as of Dec. 1st, 2022. The most recent case to catch public attention is that of Evan Gershkovich,...

Students march on the State Capitol steps during the March for Our Lives anti-gun violence protest in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday, April 3, 2023. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Is American Gun Reform Even Possible?

LJ Coady, Staff Writer April 7, 2023

Last Monday, as I was going about my day, I had a moment of free time. I opened the news app on my phone and refreshed it so I could see the latest headlines. I was expecting something about Trump’s...

President Carter waves to crowds along Pennsylvania Avenue following his Inauguration in 1977

Jimmy Carter and the Legacy of the After-Presidency

Emma McCartan, Contributing Writer March 3, 2023

In season three, episode 13 of the political drama “The West Wing,” someone tells the fictional President Jed Bartlett, “I think Lincoln did what he thought was right, even though it meant losing...

US Navy recovering a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the South Carolina Coast

China Sends us Balloons: Kind Gesture, or Sinister Tactic?

Robert "Jerry" Pfeifer, Staff Writer February 17, 2023

Shooting balloons used to be a kids’ game at carnivals. Now, nations have made it a sport to send balloons to each other for target practice. According to CNN, four balloons believed by U.S. intelligence...

The Curious Case of George Santos

The Curious Case of George Santos

Richie Rosen, Staff Writer February 3, 2023

Way back in the day when humans were still figuring out the best way to govern ourselves, a particularly astute member of our tribe known as Aristotle wrote a particularly brilliant work called Politics...

Is Congress Great Again?

Is Congress Great Again?

Michael Hanratty, Staff Writer November 11, 2022

Each month, Gallup asks Americans whether or not they approve of the work Congress is doing. Each month, fewer than a quarter of them respond in the affirmative. For nearly a decade and a half, Congress’...

Is the U.S. Doing Enough to Help Iranian Protesters?

Annabel Morris, Executive Editor November 4, 2022

Following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, anti-government protests have been met with violence by the Iranian government. Estimates of up to 233 deaths as a result of these clashes show that Iran’s...

Global Market Forecast: Stormy, Stormy, Stormy

Richie Rosen, Staff Writer October 28, 2022

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for markets across the globe.  To that end, it’s been a rough year for markets on the whole, but the recent weeks in particular have seen quite a few negative...

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