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  • Moving to and through St. Louis

    Last Tuesday, I stepped outside into the beautiful spring weather and walked from my apartment to the Delmar Loop station, a surprisingly charming MetroLink stop tucked away behind the overgrown and decommissioned Delmar Boulevard Railroad station. From there, I took the Red Line east to Union Station, the old central railroad station now home to…

  • Green Power Contest in the Aftermath of Invasion

      By Will Pease In the first official State of the Union since his inauguration, Joe Biden laid out a wide range of overlapping domestic and international crises that have created "Our moment of responsibility", and "our test of resolve and conscience, of history itself." The dramatic speech built on themes of challenges to the…
  • Green Power Competition

    By Will Pease   image provided by Pxfuel under the Creative Commons License In his first address to Congress since his inauguration, Joe Biden claimed that "We're in competition with China and other countries to win the 21st century. We're at a great inflection point in history." This rhetoric of global competition has reemerged in…
  • Lava Jato Gets Washed, Lula Eyes 2022 Run

    Lava Jato Gets Washed, Lula Eyes 2022 Run By Will Pease On March 8th, the Supreme Court of Brazil annulled the conviction of President Lula da Silva, the leader of Latin America's largest country from 2003 to 2011. The left-wing icon was originally indicted in 2016 on charges of corruption in Operação Lava Jato (Operation…
  • Horizons in Housing

    Horizons in Housing By Will Pease Artwork by Mingyi Suo The COVID-19 pandemic is not America’s only crisis. From one of the highest rates of child poverty in the developed world to tens of millions lacking proper health insurance, to over half a million sleeping on the streets, the pandemic has laid bare structural issues…