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Kavanaugh And Ford: The Hierarchy of Single-Sex Schools
I am a 2017 graduate of Holton-Arms School, the same high school that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford attended. As a Holton student, my group of friends consistently interacted with the all-boys high schools based in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (DMV), particularly with boys from the Landon School. Personally, I rarely hung out with boys from…
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Washington University In St. JUULouis
My obsession with the JUUL began one Saturday night when I was cozied up in my dorm room watching YouTube videos about butchering meat. As I lay in my pajamas, knees propped up, I was deeply engrossed in the knife work of a craft butcher who was carefully demonstrating how to fillet a Denver steak.…
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Mr. Modi’s India
In 2014, Narendra Modi, leader of India’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), became Prime Minister of India by winning the largest democratic election in history. He handily defeated the Congress Party’s candidate, and assumed office with a powerful mandate to reform. Modi’s decisive electoral victory proved the health and dynamism of India’s democracy. His opponent,…
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The Resistance?
The “resistance,” a movement ignited by the election of Trump, is for the most part Democratic, although it attracts varying degrees of Republican solidarity on certain issues. Although one might expect such a movement to resist Trump from the left, far too often it appears that the “resistance” is content to either assist in the…
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Power Over Principle
If the founding fathers had witnessed the last twelve months of American politics, they would be rolling over in their graves. In the aftermath of the most turbulent election cycle in decades, Americans seem to have forgotten the most basic founding principles of the country. When the founding fathers gathered to craft the constitution, they…
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“We The People” Can Change
In 1932, 102,221 citizens of a certain nation voted for the Communist Party in their country’s presidential debate. In 1948, two governors of the same country’s administrative municipalities ran on a ticket of oppression and apartheid for the nation’s racial minority. They gained all of the electoral votes of four of their nation’s main divisions.…
