Duncan Crim
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The Scallop Wars
The twentieth century saw destruction on a scale incomprehensible to anyone. No man, past or present, could ever fully understand the...
Mark Lu
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Dear KPU: Please, Anyone but David Hogg
On October 1, American University Student Government’s Kennedy Political Union (KPU) announced a fall event featuring "the Parkland...
Lana Green
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What the Federalist Papers can Tell us about Lobbying Today
According to a poll conducted by Monmouth University Polling Institute, only 26 percent of Americans supported the new tax bill in...
Mark Lu
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AU's Price Tag, up Ten Percent since 2016, Keeps Rising
The last institutional budget headed by former American University president Cornelius Kerwin takes effect starting October 1, 2018....
Omkar Hosad
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Why Bert and Ernie Matter
Sesame Street aired on PBS for the first time on November 10, 1969. Accessible through any television for over four decades, three...
Chris Fenn
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Cyber Attacks Prove Why Russia is an Adversary
Recently signed into law, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (NDAA) elects to label both China and Russia as...
Mark Lu
Aug 7, 20184 min read
How The GOP Tax Cuts may have doomed the economy
Two words: stock buybacks. In May, JPMorgan projected that in 2018, S&P 500 companies would invest about $1 trillion (with a "t") stock...
Mark Lu
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The strangely sensible economics of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been absorbed by the head-spinning political rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old former...
