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A Case for Universal Healthcare in the Capitalist U.S.
According to a 2023 Gallup Poll, “57% [of Americans] think the government should be responsible for ensuring [insurance] coverage for...
Ava Green
Nov 12, 2024


How the U.S. can break away from the two-party system with ranked choice voting
Ava Green interviewed Greg Dennis, Policy Director of Voter Choice Massachusetts, about how ranked choice voting can increase participation.
Ava Green
May 28, 2024


How Ron Desantis is building a dystopian future through the lens of 1984
Politico. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a rally in support of Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano on...
Ava Green
Nov 15, 2023


The Crisis of Infrastructure Investments
On February 2, 2023, news broke of the short-selling, leading to the stock collapse of the Adani Group, headed by the world's second...
Anna Epstein
May 4, 2023


The Development of Palestinian National and Political Consciousness
The Palestinian story is far from a monolith. Cultural, regional, and social identifiers shape the identity of Palestinian Arabs. This is...
Ameya Khanapurkar
May 3, 2023


The CIA’s Involvement in the 1953 Iranian Coup d’État
The publication Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, Iran, 1951-1954 — an official historical record of major United States...
Kevin Mani
Apr 5, 2023


Honesty in The Oval: A Simple Man in a Not So Simple Time
America’s 39th President has many defining characteristics, best encapsulated in the belief that the country could serve as a force of...
Mike Dupre
Mar 27, 2023


The United Kingdom’s Social Care Crisis
Before the United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union and introduced a more restrictive immigration policy, the country attracted...
Kevin Mani
Mar 6, 2023


The History of the Expatriate Community in Saudi Arabia
Since the discovery of oil, many states in the Persian Gulf have used these resources to transform from small desert sheikhdoms into...
Subin Moon
Dec 6, 2022


Aerial Combat and American Ideology: Why Ukraine is a Test of Our Tactical Preparedness
Ukraine’s jet pilot off for a training flight. (Air Force Command of UA Armed Forces/ Facebook.) Center for Defense Strategies: How...
Mike Dupre
Nov 16, 2022


Students Rally and Speak Out at Engineering Career Fair
The Boston University engineering department tries to be clear in verbalizing their goals and what they strive to achieve with their...
Ethan Gasse
Nov 9, 2022


Social Media's Propagation of Political Violence
Social media continues to have an increasingly influential role in the state of global affairs as platforms can be easily manipulated to...
Sarah Bores
Oct 13, 2022


Affirmative Action is Not Enough To Solve Disparities within the Educational System
Mark Wilson/Getty Images A judge has recently struck down a conservative legal group’s lawsuit challenging the University of North...
Dora Betts
Apr 27, 2022


The Covid-19 Pandemic's Disproportionate Effect on Minority Prisoners
Spencer Platt/Getty Images Lawrence Carter was a disabled Vietnam war veteran accused of drug possession. While awaiting trial, he was...
Ruhika Ponda
Apr 4, 2022


The Facilitated Rise of UKIP and How Economic Discontent Ignited the British Populist Flame
INTRODUCTION Will Oliver -- EPA/Alamy The United Kingdom Independence Party, also known as UKIP, is an established right-wing populist...
Ferren Winarto
Feb 22, 2022


Cultural Genocide: An Annihilation of the Soul
In “The Destruction of the Armenian Church during the Genocide,” historian, professor, and author Simon Payaslian endeavors to...
Jason Miraka
Feb 9, 2022


An Interview with Tabitha Boyton of Res Publica Politics
Tabitha Isabella Boyton is a final year student at Northeastern University reading Law with International Relations with Politics (Hons)...
Ferren Winarto
Jan 16, 2022


Sexual Misconduct at Boston University
Picture courtesy of Jackie Ricciardi “You don’t have to go through this alone.” When scrolling through Boston University’s Sexual Assault...
Hanna Dworkin
Dec 1, 2021


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...
Jason Miraka
Oct 4, 2021


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...
Guhan Venkatesan
Jun 20, 2021


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,...
Eduard Miska
Apr 5, 2021


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...
Parth Dahima
Apr 5, 2021


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...
Yashica Kataria
Apr 5, 2021


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...
Charlie Kielt
Mar 28, 2021


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...
Ferren Winarto
Mar 2, 2021


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...
Catherine Wasson and Maxwell James
Jan 24, 2021


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...
Subin Moon
Jan 22, 2021


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...
Mayela Machribie Lumban Gaol
Jan 16, 2021


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...
Ferren Winarto
Dec 10, 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...
Anonymous
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...
Ferren Winarto
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.
Anthony Kolton
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
Laila Inan and Wilfred Chirinos
Dec 6, 2020
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