Texas and California endorse gerrymandering before the 2026 midterm elections seeking a House majority As President Donald Trump finishes his first nine months in office, the statistics tell a drastically different story compared to the platform on which the Republican Party campaigned. His hopes of reforming the job market and creating a “manufacturing renaissance” are […]
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Trump, It’s Time for Reform
Why criminal justice reform should be at the top of Trump’s agenda By Tia Reddy President Trump in a Manhattan court facing charges in his hush money case. On January 20th, 2025, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. However, just six months prior, he had been found […]
Tim Walz: The Democratic Party’s VP Pick
Democrats picked a relatable candidate to sway undecided voters By: Tia Reddy On August 6th, 2024, Kamala Harris made her selection for the Democratic vice presidential candidate. The decision came after the incumbent Joe Biden dropped out of the election because of donor apathy resulting from his poor debate performance and his perceived cognitive decline. […]
The Puppet Masters of Democracy
How does reliance on technological advancement jeopardize our democracy? By: Tia Reddy What do Starlink and Facebook have in common? They are both United States-based companies that could single-handedly decide the outcome of our nation’s politics: techno-autocracies. The tech-savvy decision-makers of these companies are not elected policymakers, geopoliticians, or constitutional law experts who debate and […]
Third-Party Candidates
The Invisible Hands Which Could Impact the 2024 Elections By: Tia Reddy With the 2024 elections looming, many Americans fear a more polarized America governed by aging presidents who don’t accurately represent the people’s values. A 2024 rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump would be an election between the least popular US presidents ever. The […]
Game of Thrones vs. OpenAI
A new frontier in human-machine collaboration By Tia Reddy ’26 The creation of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s generative language model, has sparked yet another controversy after the Authors Guild, including Game of Thrones’ George R.R Martin, filed a class-action lawsuit against Open AI. The writers, whose livelihood depends on creativity, claim that their works were subject to […]
Leave The Kids Alone: Smart Toys and Privacy
Recent technology has made children more susceptible to data breaches. What are the repercussions? By: Adhiti (Tia) Reddy Imagine a five-year-old playing with a toy in the comfort of the four cozy walls of her “safe” home, but embedded in the toys are devices that could lead to information breaches and compromising of their data. […]