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The Incompatibility of Neoliberalism and Education:…
The recent election of Donald Trump has generated widespread concerns of a return to the kind of neoliberal…
Betsy DeVos and the Uncertainty of America’s…
Starting two weeks before his inauguration on January 20, 2017, President Donald Trump's numerous cabinet picks…
Gender Equality and the Economy
In the United States’s last election cycle, the world came close to the most powerful person on Earth being a…
I am Woman, Hear Me March
"The next 1,459 days of the Trump administration will be 1,459 days of resistance: Resistance on the ground,…
Breaking the Cycle of the Chicago Police Department
In the summer of 2016, I worked as an embedded journalist for Mikva Challenge, a Chicago-based non-profit. The…
David Adjaye and Living Architecture
Despite its aesthetic affectations, urban architecture is far from a politically-detached art form. The city, as an…
The Age of Disillusionment: Do Tweets Speak Louder Than…
In the run up to the inauguration, President-Elect Trump has openly threatened the Japanese Toyota industry in…
The Rise of Reactionaries: An End to Ideological…
Seventeen years ago, the twenty-first century was given a rousing reception, seen as the harbinger of hopeful times…
The Phone Call that Shook the Sino-American Status Quo
On December 2, 2016, one of the largest breaks from conventional U.S. foreign policy shook the world in the form of…
Donald Trump: The Master of Debt and King of Hypocrisy
The post-Obama period will be crucial in terms of securing and consolidating the positive economic growth that has…
The End of an Era: Can Trump and Brexit be Good for the…
2016 has been a historic year in the Western liberal political tradition. Events like the Brexit referendum in…
America is Ill, But We’re Ignoring the Sickness
"BUILD THAT WALL"
Those three haunting words made famous by Trump’s campaign has found its way from Republican…