Opinion
Crises of Dual Identities: a Blessing or a Curse?
The 2022 Winter Olympics has seen American-born athletes of Chinese descent diverge on different paths in the games. For example, Yale’s very own Nathan Chen competed and won gold for Team USA, while freestyle skier Eileen Gu and figure skater Zhu Yi chose to compete for China. How do these individuals reconcile being American citizens while having deep roots in another country — especially one with which the U.S. has such a complex relationship?
Infrastructure and How We Create It: The U.S. and Mexico’s Push to Build
A closer look at infrastructure policies shows that Mexico’s government takes an approach of federal directives at the cost of transparency or regulation, while the U.S. chooses process over progress.
On Legacy Admissions and Belonging
President Joe Biden recently announced his Supreme Court nomination, fulfilling his campaign promise to recommend a Black woman. But when the search was announced, Twitter was aflame.
What Happened During Cryptocurrency’s 2022 Crash and Why It’s Important For the Future of Blockchain
If you have read any news about cryptocurrency in the past two months, chances are it was negative press about cryptocurrency’s recent crash.
Rethinking the Ukraine Crisis
The argument that Russians should just shrug their shoulders at the thought of Ukraine abandoning its long-standing ties to Russia and forming a closer military partnership with the United States is unrealistic.
A Primer on 2021 Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering is a time-honored tradition in American politics. Every ten years, in the states that have sufficient power, Democrats or Republicans figure out how to draw lines to lock in their legislative power as comprehensively and permanently as they can. Gerrymandering works by drawing lines in a certain way to maximize the number of seats a party wins, either in the House of Representatives or in the State House and State Senate.
Do the VA and NJ results spell trouble for Democrats?
In November, Democrats lost a Governor’s race in Virginia, a state Biden won by 10, and they barely held on in New Jersey even though Biden won it by 16 just a year earlier. National media outlets and so-called political experts were quick to chalk the losses up to Biden’s lowered popularity and Congressional Democrats’ inability to deliver on his Build Back Better agenda. There’s little doubt that the national political headwinds contributed to the party’s struggles last month, but the story may be more complicated.