Delegates at COP 28 reflect progress in climate finance and cooperation. Yet, there is still an urgent need for efforts combating climate change ..read more

“President Joe Biden talks on the phone with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee...” by The White House is licensed under CC0 1.0 DEED ..read more

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The trial testing of redesigned naturalization tests announced by USCIS in December 2022 include increased difficulty in a standardized English-speaking portion and an updated civics test. Increasing the difficulty of the English-speaking test could create barriers for non-English speakers seeking U.S. citizenship, reinforcing discrimination. The historical and current attempts to make English the official language in the U.S. have and could increase discrimination towards people who speak languages other than English ..read more

Urban sprawl is ugly and widely disliked, yet it composes most new development in Charlottesville and throughout North America. Why does this type of built environment persist and proliferate ..read more

Political idealism is often met with criticism and disregard. However, hope in the future of America has always played an essential role in political and social progress.  ..read more

In the United States, freedom before trial is based on a defendant’s financial means. This creates detrimental effects for equal rule of law and justice, and structural reforms are necessary.  ..read more

The government finds it prudent to curb minors’ access to pornographic content, but does that simultaneously curb our rights as citizens ..read more

As right-wing extremism occupies the plans of select Republican Congresspersons, parallels can be drawn between the optics and strategies of GOP dissenters of the 2020s and the Tea Party Republicans of the 2010s. While their similarities are striking, differences in representation suggest that the kind of rhetoric of select Republicans falls onto the deaf, unrequited ears of the electorate ..read more

It is vital to honor history when speaking of such a contentious topic as Israel and Palestine; that is of course, history of an earlier time and of a more recent time. The proportion of death must come into play, especially in an evaluation of arguably the most complicated conflict humanity has ever seen ..read more