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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…

  • 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.…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • “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.…