The coalition poses little threat to the U.S. dollar By Bradford Kimball ’24 Brick by brick, stone by stone, BRICS has been steadily expanding its alliance and trying to challenge the ubiquity of the U.S. Dollar. In 2023, BRICS, the alliance between the developing economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, announced that […]
Category: Foreign Policy
Will Japan Turn Our Oceans Radioactive?
Why Japan’s release of radioactive water might not be such a big deal By Yancheng Zhao ’26 As tanks near capacity at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Japan has started clearing them out by releasing thousands of tons of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. Over the span of 30 years, Japan is projected […]
The Basis of Xenophobia
Why Biden Shouldn’t Require Covid-19 Testing from China By: Baron Langston On January 5th, 2023, the Biden Administration decided that those arriving from China have to show a negative COVID test before coming into the US. However, considering the backlash of xenophobia that’s bound to occur, this decision has a series of downsides. Biden’s decision […]
No Room for Improvement
China’s Big Tech Crackdown and Their Inability to Take Criticism By: Beckett Dubovik TikTok, Clash Royale, League of Legends. If you are active online or follow popular trends, chances are you have heard of these apps. All the aforementioned apps have one similarity: they are owned by Chinese parent companies. In recent years, these billion-dollar […]
The Chinese COVID-19 Fiasco
How Zero-COVID resulted in 60,000 dead By: You-Yan Wang Three years have passed since COVID-19 first rattled the world back in 2020, but while countries like the US have returned to a sense of normalcy, the motherland of the virus, China, is now in a deep predicament. After holding off the virus successfully for a […]
A Moral Failure, A Moral Solution
It’s Time to Chart a New Course for Humanitarian Aid By: Graham Bateman In 2023, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will most likely administer roughly 29.4 billion dollars in international aid. Well-used international aid can improve the lives of millions of people, but poorly-used international aid can decimate local economies and push people interminably […]
The Dangers of Cobalt Mining
Why the United States must turn to cobalt-free technology By: Niels Cohen No material holds as much importance in today’s world as cobalt. Cobalt has a broad range of industrial and technological applications that make procuring cobalt essential for global energy. 60%-70% of all cobalt extracted in the world is mined in the Dominican Republic of Congo […]
An Unfair Trade
A Juggle of Freedom Between a Veteran and a Basketball Player By: Briyana Targete One of the most immoral prisoner swaps of our government’s history took place on December 8, 2022, when the U.S. Government traded a recently detained WNBA player, Brittney Griner, for Russian warlord Viktor Bout instead of Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine […]
The Removal of U.S. Missile Defense Systems from Saudi Arabia
Elliot Johnson // A necessary first step to end U.S. military support for a troublesome ally // The United States has greatly decreased its anti-missile systems in an authoritarian, radical, and Islamist Saudi Arabia. Removing these missile systems is a necessary first step for the U.S. to end all military support for Saudi Arabia. The […]
Germany May Soon Enter Liberal Control
Jack McNealy // Progressive German parties must unite to take power // Later this year, Angela Merkel will step down as Germany’s chancellor, ending three decades at the forefront of German politics. Despite Merkel’s steady, conservative leadership, German politics has swung to the left. To translate this momentum to concrete political power, the Social Democratic […]