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...
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Alex Obolensky
- May 31
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
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
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
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
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,...
Isabel Mathews
- Oct 24, 2023
Woodrow Wilson’s Racist Domestic Policy Cutting Into International Leadership
Woodrow Wilson The 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, is most notable for his strong diplomacy during World War I,...
Kyra Freeman
- Oct 24, 2023
Why Unions Matter: A Brief History of Their Impact
The Writers Guild of America members picket outside of Warner Brothers on the first day of strikes, May 2nd, 2023. Unions are so back....
Traci Holmer
- Oct 24, 2023
Indigenous Perspectives on Gender: How the Gender Binary is Rooted in Colonialism
In the US, there has been a massive conservative backlash and moral panic in response to transgender visibility. In 2023 alone, 576...
Kayla Arch
- Sep 27, 2023
Protection and Prevention: Title IX’s Role in Supporting Victims of Sexual Assault at Universities
Student-run organizations at the University of Lynchburg protesting against the poor response of reported sexual assault cases, November...
Maria Johnsonbough
- Sep 27, 2023
Colonization and Ethnic Violence - What Happens When the West Leaves
https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar/296-long-haul-ahead-myanmars-rohingya-refugee-crisis On January 4, 1948, while...
Adam Ghannoum
- Aug 13, 2023
Srebrenica: More Than Just a Failure
Gravestones at the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Centre Following the aftermath of World War I, the country of Yugoslavia was created. The...
Traci Holmer
- Aug 13, 2023
A History of Climate Denial: How Big Oil Fooled Generations of Americans
Participant in the climate strikes of 2019 addresses climate denial in government. What is Climate Change? Climate change describes...
Hazel Montgomery-Walsh
- May 15, 2023
Could the U.S. Have Prevented Death during the Rwandan Genocide?
Snapshot of Victims of the Rwandan Genocide What should we have done differently? In the months and years leading up to the Rwandan...
Alex Horn
- May 15, 2023
The Weaponization of "Parents' Rights" in the Right's War Against Public Education
Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters After losing the House in 2018, and the presidency and Senate in 2020, the Republican Party sought a change in...
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