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Morgan O’Connell
7 days ago
Why Maryland Should Eliminate Single-Family Zoning
Single-family zoning is a legal practice that prohibits the construction or use of multi-family housing — such as duplexes, multiplexes,...
Naomi Nicholas
7 days ago
The Tipping Point: America's Service Workers Deserve More than Spare Change
Image  of a display requesting a tip. In a not-so-distant memory, tipping was largely confined to restaurants and bellhops, with the...
Kyra Freeman
7 days ago
From Abolition to Acceleration: The Death Penalty’s Unexpected Return
Deacon Dave Billips protests the execution of Marcellus Williams on September 24th, 2024 in St. Louis Missouri. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis...
Hayden Day
7 days ago
Broken Foundations: The History of Inequality in America’s Public Education
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, in Boston, Massachusetts ( bostonpublicschools.org ). The United States of America was founded...
Gavin Neubauer
7 days ago
When A Segregationist Almost Toppled the Electoral College
Candidate Headshots from Wikimedia Commons In today’s political landscape of cutthroat elections, the Electoral College can cause quite a...
Kayla Arch
Oct 30, 2024
The Respect for the President: A Thing of the Past?
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are the 2024 Presidential candidates for the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively. With the...
Ashna Balroop
Oct 30, 2024
The Racist Foundation of Policing
Demonstrators in Philadelphia during a Black Lives Matter protest on June 2, 2020 ( Matt Rourke/AP/ABC News) Police-community...
Gavin Neubauer
Oct 1, 2024
The Metro Doesn’t Work the Way it Should
Peter Dovak’s to-scale Metro Map I spent a lot of time this summer analyzing WMATA’s Better Bus  initiative and how it would impact...
Francis Franch
Oct 1, 2024
The Electoral College: A Game Where Losers Can Win
Weinberg Magazine ; political cartoon depicting the odd commitment American society has towards the Electoral System despite its clear...
Morgan O’Connell
May 31, 2024
The Price We Pay: How College Tuition Funded Unwanted War
BETTMANN, CORBIS, AP IMAGES Economists and political pundits have consistently cited high inflation rates, a pressing oil embargo, and...
Alex Obolensky
May 31, 2024
Next Stop: Equality of the DC Metro System
Image of a Washington, D.C. Metro station. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Washington, D.C. faced a major problem....
Kyra Freeman
May 1, 2024
War: Pandemonium and Profit
Over 100 people protest the opening of North America’s largest military weapons convention in May 2023. War. For most, that word has...
Kayla Arch
May 1, 2024
The Racial Disparities Against Black Babies and Mothers in Healthcare
Implicit biases and structural racism are two issues that negatively affect the Black community in the United States. However, an issue...
Isabel Mathews
Apr 2, 2024
Somaliland: Democracy Growing in Barren Land
Somaliland Construction Located southwest of Ethiopia, off the coast of the Gulf of Aden, lies an unrecognized yet autonomous state known...
Gavin Neubauer
Feb 27, 2024
The Undying Dream of Freedom: How Black America Once Imagined Reconstruction in Savannah
Aftermath of Sherman’s Campaign in Atlanta, Library of Congress, Hosted digitally by Wikimedia Commons Atlanta was a smoldering ruin....
Alex Horn
Dec 28, 2023
El Pacto del Olvido: The Spanish Repression of Memory
Adolfo Suárez swears in as el Presidente del Gobierno in 1976. King Juan Carlos (center) watches on, while Francoist officials surround...
Alex Obolensky
Dec 28, 2023
Highway Havoc: How the US Highway System Connects The Country but Divides The People
Image of a US highway On a warm summer morning in 1919, 79 U.S. Army vehicles left Washington D.C. and headed west towards San Francisco....
Hazel Montgomery-Walsh
Dec 28, 2023
Haiti and the Case for Reparations
Image depicting plantations burning during the first ever successful slave revolt. In 1803, modern-day Haiti completed the unimaginable:...
Gavin Neubauer
Dec 28, 2023
The Last Execution in Maryland
Common Lethal Injection Gurney from Las Vegas Review Journal On December 30, 1637, a warrant for the arrest of Thomas Smith and Edward...
Nicholas Gerakis
Nov 20, 2023
From Burials to Boulevards: The Women Who Sculpted the Lost Cause
The Frank Bennett Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Wadesboro, NC The American Civil War ended not quite with a bang,...
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