| Aaron Pawlinski | December 10th, 2018 | On October 2nd, 2018, Saudi-born journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in a consulate in Istanbul by Saudi officials. His death was the supposed result of years of criticism against his home country’s Crown Prince and King. Although Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has not …
| Michael Eustice| December 3rd, 2018 | Recent increases in international connectivity due to globalism have ushered a new era of economic prosperity. Enhanced global communication, stemming from globalism, has unleashed the potential of market economies, significantly increasing the ability of goods and services to be transported around the world in a cost-efficient manner. Globalism …
| Stephen Steiner | May 1st, 2018 | Last month, the Trump administration announced steel and aluminum tariffs in an effort to protect the domestic steel and aluminum industries from falling steel prices across the globe. While the tariffs have been levied on imports from the majority of countries, the target is largely China. They …
| Daryl Wang | May 1st, 2018 | What is something that everyone of us has with only a finite amount each day regardless of our wealth? If you think the answer is time then you are close, but not quite right. Time does not really belong to us, it passes whether we want it …
| Luke Geistlinger | April 26th, 2018 | Since Donald Trump began his campaign for President, he has taken an aggressive stance towards China by leveling accusations of job theft and disparaging America’s trade deficit with the People’s Republic. For American foreign policy hawks, this is a good thing; China is the world’s only other …
| Zach Swaziek | March 30th, 2018 | In the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, candidate Bernie Sanders ignited a fire in students around the U.S. Most notably, Sanders ran on the platform of making college debt free. While this may be unrealistic in the current political environment, the idea gained a lot of traction and …
| Megan Elmes | March 13th, 2018 | By now it’s clear that healthcare costs in the United States are soaring with no expected reduction coming anytime soon. In 2015, we spent $9,990 per capita on healthcare, more than double the OECD median. To start controlling this spending, there has been a dramatic transition from …
| Ian de Wet | March 4, 2018 | As union membership across the public and private sectors continues to decline in the United States, the Supreme Court recently began hearing arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, a potential landmark case that will determine the fate of public-sector unions. The case centers around Mark Janus, a …
| Stephen Steiner | February 26, 2018 | At the recent World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, regulation of the technology industry took the fore; world leaders and leaders of other industries warned of the dangers they pose not only to the integrity of the global economy, but also to global security over …
| Daryl Wang | February 26, 2018 | A major criticism on the Trump administration’s new infrastructure plan is that the government is not spending enough. The federal government itself is only spending 200 billion dollars on this 1.5 trillion dollar stimulus package, while the remaining trillion dollars is expected to come from private investors …