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The Removal of Confederate Monuments in the United…
On January 18th, an e-mail was sent to Montreal's McGill University student body informing us of the creation of a…
Fiscal Responsibility is Common Cents
It used to be that both parties cared about spending money responsibly in Washington. In 1960, President Dwight D.…
Re-thinking Canadian and US Immigration Policy
Among the top 10 immigrant-friendly nations include Canada and the United States, unsurprisingly, as both of these…
First in Flight, Last in Freedom: The Worrying State of…
In July 2015, the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles started offering an alternative to the “First…
The Never-Ending Fight to Save Chicago Schools
The City of Chicago, led by Rahm Emmanuel, shut down 50 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in 2013. In the five years…
The End of Fake News?
In January 2018, French president Emmanuel Macron resolved to make fake news a thing of the past with an…
New Year, New Challenges in Canadian-American Relations
Along with every new year come clichéd notions of a fresh start, new beginnings, and better relationships in the…
The Facts and the Furious: A New Era of Journalism in…
“Fake news” - the term has graced news feeds and dominated headlines nearly every day for the past year, becoming a…
Sharp Edges of a Broken Glass Ceiling: Women in…
Both cultural barriers and structural gender discriminative policies are interwoven in a way that systemically…
UChicago Trauma Relief
The new year is bringing much needed medical relief to Chicago’s South Side. At the end of 2017, the University of…
It’s Time to End the State Sponsors of Terrorism…
Since 1979, the United States State Department has kept a list of what it calls “state sponsors of terrorism.”…
Too Big To Fail: What Next For US-Pakistani Relations?
2018 started on the worst possible note for US-Pakistani relations. Donald Trump’s inaugural tweet accused…