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China’s Exhausting Environmental Militancy Against Taiwan
One of China’s primary environmental aggressions toward Taiwan comes in the form of pillaging a precious—but easily plunderable—natural resource. The resource is sand, which is unexpectedly the world’s second most used resource. As one of the primary materials used to…
Will the Future of Abortion Litigation Rest on Religious Freedom Claims?
The summer’s news cycle has been dominated by stories of supreme and state court rulings eroding social protections secured by landmark cases over past decades. The overturning of Roe v. Wade by way of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization…
My Experience at Bitcoin 2022
Last weekend, I was one of the almost 30,000 crypto-passionate people who descended onto Miami beach in anticipation of Bitcoin 2022, the largest, most influential cryptocurrency conference in the world. Touting influential speakers from a variety of different fields as well as innovative companies selling groundbreaking blockchain products and services, the conference took over Miami beach.
Blockchain in Crisis
Blockchain is primarily thought of as an emerging technology used to support outrageous tokens like Dogecoin and unfathomable sales of jpegs for millions of dollars as NFTs. What’s less well known is blockchain’s influential power of accessibility for communities in crisis as they battle oppression and violence.
Change Can’t Be Choreographed: The Messy Racial Politics of the Super Bowl Halftime Show
We shouldn’t just relish this Halftime Show as an entertaining concert and ignore its troubling politics, because that’s what the NFL wants. The confused politics fade into the background, and viewers are left with fond memories of a celebratory performance of hip-hop.
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.
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.