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Fixing Constitutional Amendments: A Cure Worse Than The Disease
It is easy to look at our chaotic political situation and say that we wish substantive, enduring change could be enacted more quickly. Legislation can get passed one year and repealed the next, so it is easy to see why the idea of making constitutional amendments simpler to pass is appealing. What’s more, when a…
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The People Across the River
For many non-residents, “Anacostia” refers to all of DC across the Anacostia River. In reality, Anacostia is just the neighborhood on the eastern end of the 11th Street Bridge. Despite the area’s current issues with poverty and crime, it is one of the most historic neighborhoods in the whole city. While most DC students make…
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Segregation In The West Bank: The Case of Hebron
The lively marketplace of Hebron resembles the souqs of other Palestinian cities, with people crowding the narrow streets, stands selling shawarma and falafel every twenty feet, kids running around, and friends meeting for tea and argeelah in cafes. You would think you were in the old city of Nablus or even some parts of Ramallah—until…
