The U.S. Supreme Court has been historically significant, producing seminal effects on the nation’s legal and political frameworks. From Brown v. Board of Education (1954) declaring racial segregation unconstitutional to Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) ensuring marriage equality for sexual minorities, the Supreme Court has overturned hundreds of thousands of discriminatory laws. This couldn’t have been […]
Dear America, What’s Next?
Earlier this week, my roommates and I gathered around the dining table, as we occasionally manage to do, sharing a few moments of comfort and some sense of a safe haven. One of my roommates brought up a discussion she had in class about how we move forward after this tumultuous election, which, I can […]
It Is Time to Look in the Mirror
DISCLAIMER: I am not a U.S. citizen nor did I vote in this election. This article is an objective analysis of what the Democrats need to reflect on before the midterms. When I woke up on the morning of Wednesday, November 6th, the first thing I did was reach for my phone. The election had […]
Why Kamala Harris Lost
Ahead of election night, the 2024 presidential race appeared to be agonizingly close. Polls showed the race was neck-and-neck. Forecasting models said the odds were a coin-flip. Despite the apparent tightness of the race, Democrats had reason to feel confident. For three decades, they have been the party of the American majority. The Republican Party […]
Waking Up From The American Dream
Defined by James Truslow Adams, the American Dream is of a “land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” The underlying principle of the Dream is that all Americans, regardless of race, creed, color, or religion, can achieve success in […]
Is Barbie a Feminist?
Children across the nation are taught ideals of female empowerment and mobility through the accomplishments of Barbie. While Barbie is a household name, it became even more widespread with this summer’s Barbie movie. Released the same day as Oppenheimer, many saw this as the perfect representation of femininity and masculinity being played out over the […]
Old Habits Die Hard in Haiti
Since Haiti’s independence from France in 1804, the United States has made a concerted effort to control politics and economics in Haiti to promote American interests in the Caribbean. Following the Haitian Revolution for independence, many southerners feared that slaves in America would take inspiration from the forceful expulsion of French colonialists. Slaveholders sought to […]
Polarization Puts the US Military at Risk
The United States military is arguably the most formidable in the world, utilizing an $817 billion budget and employing almost 1.3 million active service members. Why then, has a lone US Senator been so detrimental to the day-to-day workings of the armed forces? Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is the senior US Senator from Alabama currently serving […]
The Moon as a New Political Frontier
We’re going back to the Moon. One year from now, humanity will be within lunar orbit for the first time since the famous Apollo missions half a century ago. NASA’s Artemis II is set to complete a lunar orbit in November 2024, a ten-day voyage that will test new launching and spacecraft technology. The spacecraft […]
To the Committee on Admissions
Last summer, the Supreme Court held in two companion cases brought against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina by Students for Fair Admissions, an anti-affirmative action lobbying group, that the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. These decisions have forced colleges and […]