Scars of Europe
Phillip Capper, CC BY Beneath the trenches scarring Europe’s fields languish the corpses of young men subjected to the barbarity of a...
Guhan Venkatesan
- Jun 20
Red Dead Revitalization
Bebeto Matthews/The Associated Press During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the general line of thinking was that urban, densely...
Eduard Miska
- Apr 5
Back-Channel Triumphant: Kissinger, Dobrynin, and the 1972 Treaty on Limiting Anti-Ballistic Missile
Runner-Up of The Politica's Research Essay Prize 2021 Henry Kissinger and Anatoly Dobrynin in the Map Room at the White House, March 17,...
Parth Dahima
- Apr 5
The Need for a Third-Way: Issues Surrounding Medicare-for-All
Runner-Up of The Politica's Research Essay Prize 2021 Alex Wong/Getty Images INTRODUCTION Contemporary progressivism in the United States...
Yashica Kataria
- Apr 5
The Disappearance of Hindu Symbols of Marriage: What Does it Mean for Hindu Culture?
Winner of The Politica's Research Essay Prize 2021 Symbols of Hindu marriage have been around for centuries and the meanings behind them...
Charlie Kielt
- Mar 28
r/WallStreetBets and the Illusion of Rebellion
On the morning of January 28th, 2021, retail investing giant Robinhood and similar brokers halted trade of certain stocks and their...
Ferren Winarto
- Mar 2
The League of Nations: Destined for Failure
As the progenitor of the modern-day United Nations, the League of Nations was the first intergovernmental organisation which was...
Term Limits: A Solution to Congressional Gridlock, Lobbyists, and Voter Indifference to Elections?
In the United States, the average age of a legislator in Congress is fifty-nine. [1] This is problematic, as young people are impacted by...
Subin Moon
- Jan 22
Mom, Why Do I Have to Go to School?
AsiaNews This paper examines the role universal access to primary education in South Korea in the late 1950s played in providing a...
Revisiting Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York in Today’s America
© Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York is a film that reminds us that for as long as the United States has...
Ferren Winarto
- Dec 10, 2020
The Reality of Hobbes’ Realism in the Arms Race: from the Cold War to the Present
“Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has...
Anonymous
- Dec 6, 2020
Private Insurance Finally Codes
Photo by Kendal on Unsplash “As much as some want to deny it, a public health insurance option – or better yet, well-implemented...
Ferren Winarto
- Dec 6, 2020
The Kantian Fingerprint on the United Nations’ Self Determination of Peoples
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization which seeks to promote diplomatic relations and foster peace and cooperation...
Anthony Kolton
- Dec 6, 2020
The Blessings of Immigration
The blessings of immigration are bestowed to the lucky few who immigrate and to the countries which they move to, like the United States.
Laila Inan and Wilfred Chirinos
- Dec 6, 2020
Ideological Tourism: How COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter Exposed Performative Activism
This paper addresses the social and political phenomena of “ideological tourism” and “slacktivism” to explain the performative actions displ