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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cars, planes, and boats have one thing in common — they all fall short as efficient transportation systems capable of moving millions across the country and between major metropolitan areas. The solution? Trains. High-speed rail transportation can transform the way Americans travel well into the future, all while providing a cheaper and more environmentally friendly […]
Over the past decade, France has fallen victim to some of Europe’s most devastating terrorist attacks. From Charlie Hebdo to Samuel Paty, from November 13th to the Nice Bastille Day attack, these terrorist incidents have undoubtedly left a scar on the French consciousness. In fact, just a few weeks ago, a schoolteacher in the northern […]
What do a French businessman who travels to Spain for work each day, a farm laborer from Morocco who travels to Spain to work during the harvest season, and a woman from Sri Lanka who works as a nanny for a middle-class family in Spain all have in common? They are circular migrants. The European […]
Introduction A decade ago, AI with human-like capabilities may have seemed like something from a science fiction novel. But over the last few years, advancements in the technology behind AI and the release of widely used models like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT have changed the prevalence of AI in day-to-day conversations. For many, human-level AI is no […]