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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has been through several waves of COVID-19, often because of new variants of the virus. While cases are dropping nationwide from the recent...
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Though the threat of climate change has been looming for decades, the reality that it does, in fact, represent an existential crisis did not hit home for most people until quite recently. Just in the...
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Corrupt governments pose a threat to global order and security. Such a concentration of power for the head of state allows authoritarian regimes to crack down on dissenters and journalists and carry...
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Two totalitarian nations currently threaten the world order, China and Russia. They stand in stark contrast to the world’s democracies, which have been united in their response to Russia’s...
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In 2020, more women ran for national office in America than in any other year in history. Most prominently, Kamala Harris became Vice-President. With Nancy Pelosi already having previously broken...
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Nearly two years in, the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of nearly 950,000 people in the United States. Despite early indications that the omicron variant, which was first detected in the...
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It has been about two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. And while the highly transmissible omicron variant sent infection rates soaring to all-time highs in January 2021, the recent...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin of Russia announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine, launching rockets and shells throughout Ukraine, killing at least 137 soldiers on the first day. ...
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Among the most important aims of the Biden administration’s legislative agenda is to fix – which usually means to update and replace – vast portions of the nation’s infrastructure. This...
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February is Black History Month, and what better way to observe it than to look at the achievements of the 11 Black Americans who have served in the United States Senate. The first was Hiram Revels...
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With the climate crisis looming larger, it is becoming ever more clear that humanity must radically change its habits to avoid devastating, irreversible consequences. As of March of 2021, 21% of the...
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The problem of homelessness has been improved in America over the last several years. While the number of people experiencing homelessness had begun to decline over the decade that just ended, the...
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“Eat your veggies!” That mantra has been drilled into Americans since childhood, and most of us are following that sound advice. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “National...
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Americans, and indeed the world, have grappled with COVID-19 for two years now. From the first confirmed case in the U.S. in January 2020 through the beginning of 2022, the country has seen infection...
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The ForbesAvenue Bridge in Pittsburgh collapsed hours before President Joe Biden was to arrive in the city to make a speech about the need to upgrade America’s infrastructure. Like everything else,...
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