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Partisan Politics: Evaluating its Evolution and Impact on America
A shot of the Capitol building. ‘Partisan bipartisanship’ in a competitive Congress /The Hill/Getty Images In George Washington’s...
Ashna Balroop
Mar 10


The Purge You’ve Never Heard Of: The Lavender Scare
Many Americans have heard of the Second Red Scare, an anti-Communist movement spearheaded by Joseph McCarthy, that sought to censor...
Ankita Lodh
Mar 10


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,...
Morgan O’Connell
Jan 3


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...
Naomi Nicholas
Jan 3


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...
Kyra Freeman
Jan 3


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...
Hayden Day
Jan 3


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...
Gavin Neubauer
Jan 3


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...
Kayla Arch
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...
Ashna Balroop
Oct 30, 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...
Gavin Neubauer
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...
Francis Franch
Oct 1, 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...
Morgan O’Connell
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....
Alex Obolensky
May 31, 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...
Kyra Freeman
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...
Kayla Arch
May 1, 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...
Isabel Mathews
Apr 2, 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....
Gavin Neubauer
Feb 27, 2024


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 Horn
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....
Alex Obolensky
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:...
Hazel Montgomery-Walsh
Dec 28, 2023
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