“Liz Truss recently completed the shortest ever term as Prime Minister in Britain’s history which was mired by controversy and public outrage. As the country is left in a state of uncertainty all eyes are on the recently elected Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak.“
Read More“Georgia has consequential federal and state-level races on the ballot this year, including a marquee Senate race between incumbent Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Hershel Walker, a former University of Georgia football player and a recipient of the Heisman trophy (R-GA), as well as a rematch between incumbent Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams (D-GA), who hopes her efforts to increase voter access, protection, and registration since her close loss in the 2018 election will create a path to victory.”
Read More“A series of raids orchestrated by extremist groups has recently left dozens of soldiers and civilians alike dead or missing, which provided a catalyst for the Burkina Faso army to depose Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba, and replace him with Captain Ibrahim Traoré. In a televised statement made by Traoré, he justified the change in power due to Damiba’s inability to suppress a burgeoning Islamist insurgency in the north and east of the nation that has driven over two million people — or 10% of the population — from their homes.”
Read More“Repetitive damage to the island’s cultural relics and statues pose a threat to the preservation of the Rapa Nui people and way of life. Many wonder if selling the island as a tourist attraction is worth losing its rich, beautiful history.“
Read More“Following a crash in oil prices from the pandemic, oil companies have since moved to secure for themselves more certain assets and deals rather than tempting risk. Over the past year, expansion to new lands in exploration of oil deposits have declined drastically.“
Read More“Conflicts involving Argentina’s 39 indigenous groups and the Argentine state have been constant and sometimes violent; many revolve around issues of discrimination, conflicting claims to land, and gendered violence.“
Read More“With the recent announcement from the White House and an increasing number of states legalizing marijuana, North Carolinians are left wondering about the future of marijuana legalization in their state. While both Governor Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein have voiced their support for legalization of marijuana, the ultimate decision lies in the hands of North Carolina’s Republican-controlled state legislature.“
Read More“While the Income-Driven Student Loan Forgiveness Act will help many Americans today, it simultaneously admits the inherent need for change in our Department of Education. If Americans want to see a future with growing numbers of college graduates, we have to act now. Congress must be urged to make longstanding policy on the student debt crisis rather than create more short-term fixes.“
Read More“Suicide rates represent a breakdown of economic and emotional stability and a failure of social structures to adequately reconcile the effects of that instability in an uncertain world.”
Read More“Only recently having left the world of mask mandates, vaccines, work at home orders, and increased prices, the state of the dollar must be preserved in an already weakened economy. With inflation the highest in over forty years, having been capped in July at 9.1%, additive changes such as loan forgiveness will seek to halt its decline back to the recommended 2%.”
Read More“One of the potential versions of the legislation, sponsored by Senators Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly, stipulates that lawmakers, their spouses and dependent children would be prohibited from individually investing in stock, bonds, cryptocurrencies and other financial assets tied to particular companies. Alternatively, the legislation would also force members of Congress to divest or move assets into a blind trust, where they would have no involvement in managing the profitability of their investments and require lawmakers to provide detailed transaction summaries for permitted investments.“
Read More“Beyond the CAQ’s sweeping victory, the election results are also notable for the sharp defeat of the Parti Quebecois and its platform of full independence from Ottawa. Yet the decline of the party most traditionally linked with Quebec separatism is not a decline of the nationalist project itself. Rather, the victory of the CAQ marks a redefinition, not a repudiation, of Quebec nationalism.”
Read More“One month after Biden’s announcement of his student debt relief act, The Department of Education quietly changed the eligibility guidelines for commercially held loans, leaving 2.2 million private borrowers with little information and no path forward.”
Read More“We have passed two hundred and twenty five days into the Russia-Ukraine war; Russia’s international support falls as Putin threatens nuclear escalation, and the west suspects the Kremlin of attacks on Europe’s energy infrastructure. Ukraine works to entrench its security guarantees as Russia annexes four of its regions.”
Read More“In 2020, a group of the company’s lawyers began searching for alternate ownership methods to answer the question of Chouinard’s eventual succession. Chouinard wanted to “go purpose,” not public. Going public would have been chaotic, in his eyes, because shareholders’ motivation for short-term profit would have drowned out the company’s mission of sustainability and workers’ rights“
Read More“The far-right may use democratic means, if necessary, to gain power, but their true alliance is not with democracy; it is with power and control.”
Read More“The protests, which began in mid-September, are a response to the unjustified police murder of Amini andthe continued oppression of women under the conservative government of Iran. The demonstrations display acts of defiance by Iranian women targeting various symbols of the Republic.”
“Former president Trump is facing an uphill battle after the FBI raid on his Mar-a-lago property failed to recover all of the missing documents that are in his possession. As the National Archives works to find the remaining documents Trump is under more and more fire from the press. This story broke a month before the 2022 midterm elections, but will it hurt the Republican party as they attempt to gain back seats they lost in the 2020 general election?”
Read More“This midterm year is anything but typical. With Covid-19 cases on the decline but still persisting, rising inflation, and abounding culture wars, the midterms were shaping up to be a referendum on the Biden era of government, with prospects looking like Democrats would lose big in both houses of Congress. But, over the summer, things started to shift.”
“After a thorough investigation, a United Nations commission recently concluded that Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine, which has incited even more outrage from world leaders. UN Secretary-General António Guterres even warned that these recent developments could lead to “an endless cycle of horror and bloodshed.” The beginning of a discussion involving war crimes requires an examination of the UN Charter, which President Biden referred to in his recent speech to the UN General Assembly.”
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