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  • The Reality of the Fake News Hysteria

    Since the 2016 election, “fake news” has become a stunningly popular topic among politicians in America and around the world. As of November 2017, the term’s usage had increased by 365 percent since 2016. Donald Trump played a major role in its popularization, with his attacks on the media often laced with the term “fake…

    2018, Bodies, Election 2016, Miscellaneous, Modern War, National

  • What Is Sessions Smoking?

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ memo reversing the hands-off approach to state laws allowing for the medical and/or recreational use of marijuana has introduced a great deal of tension between federal and state laws. While marijuana-friendly states were not given absolute freedom from federal law under Obama and former deputy Attorney General Jim Cole, they were…

    2018, National, Religion

  • The (Mis)construction of Knowledge

    Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in two rulings nearly 15 years ago that sex offenders’ rate of re-offense, at almost 80 percent, is “frightening and high.” Since then, his “statistic” has been used by hundreds of lower courts and lawyers to defend policies that banish offenders from most communities. The severity of the punishment would be…

    Constructions, Dan Sicorsky, Dan Sicorsky

  • Affirmative Action and Asian Americans

    Since the Department of Justice announced its investigation into the effects of affirmative action on Asian Americans, there has been renewed attention on Edward Blum’s case against race-based admissions at Harvard. I’ve grown increasingly troubled with the fierce discussion that has erupted over this news. I could easily be a plaintiff in Blum’s case: first-generation…

    2017, Bodies, Education, Featured, Justice, National

  • Kids in Jail

    BY BENJAMIN SZANTON There are many milestones in the lives of kids growing up in Missouri. They learn to ride a bike, head off to kindergarten and graduate elementary school. Then, with their twelfth birthday, they reach a big one: the ability to be charged as adults by their state’s criminal justice system. States have…

    Featured, Justice

  • Appeal the Repeal!

    On October 12, U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips issued a legal injunction which effectively put a hold on all prior military discharges made as a result of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. If left unchallenged by a likely Department of Justice appeal, Judge Phillips would be responsible for bringing an end to the 17…

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