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Impossible Trinity
The most important election in St. Louis was decided in nail-biting fashion on March 5th, when twelve-year incumbent Lewis Reed retained his position as President of the Board of Aldermen (BOA) by winning the Democratic primary. Reed won the primary with only 35 percent of the vote; his two opponents, Missouri State Senator Jamilah Nasheed…
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The Plan To Elect The President By Majority
The United States Constitution is outdated, rigid, and quirky. It is the oldest living Constitution, is notoriously difficult to amend, and it established arcane institutions like the Electoral College, which is so convoluted that no other country decided to emulate it. The Constitution is also unique in that it cedes a substantial amount of legislative…
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Electability Is Voters’ Priority Issue In 2020
The 2020 Democratic primary field is crowded. There’s a black, female frontrunner, a gay mayor, a black senator, progressive white women, a Hispanic housing secretary, an Asian American businessman, and white men who range from centrist dad to socialist grandpa. With 11 announced candidates and 12 still deciding, voters have their work cut out for…
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The Case for Foreign Policy Regulations
Anyone specializing in any field of policy will tell you that theirs is the most important. In the case of foreign policy, that argument might hold some weight. Since the end of the Second World War, an activist foreign policy on the part of the United States has coincided with the elimination of great-power conflict,…
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Our Deranged Media
Even though it has been over two months since the Inauguration, and even longer since Election Day, the sight of Donald Trump in the White House still feels like a dream – or, more aptly, a nightmare. That a man so manifestly unqualified for the office of the presidency and so obviously uninterested in its…
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1824 and 2016
Citizens are so preoccupied with the spectacle of the current election cycle that they forget a precedent exists for their current times; those who wonder what Clinton and Trump presidencies would be like need look no further than John Quincy Adams and “Old Hickory” himself, Andrew Jackson. It’s 1824, and the United States is gearing…
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Ask What You Can Do for Your State
Any college freshman can tell you that America is not as homogeneous as we pretend. We come to Washington University in St. Louis knowing we will meet people of different cultural backgrounds, but heritage manifests itself in ways we do not expect. No one talks about North Dakota’s culture, West Virginia’s culture, or Michigan’s culture,…
