The rise of new cities in China has become commonplace In the last several years years. China’s rapid economic growth has become synonymous with its equally rapid urbanization. From the time Deng Xiaoping ascended to power in China in 1978, GDP has grown from $149.5 Billion USD to $11 Trillion USD. As Deng’s policies transformed … Read more
When I first learned of my rooming assignment for this school year, I was nothing short of ecstatic. I had just barely survived living on the bottom bunk in an unfathomably cramped double in a suite of five guys in Grays Hall my freshman year. Thus, I anxiously awaited the day when I would move … Read more
Josh Earnest was the White House press secretary under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017. Before that, he served as principal deputy White House press secretary and chief of staff to Press Secretary Jay Carney. He was succeeded in January by President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer. Harvard Political Review: You are one … Read more
War is often thought of as a foreign concept, one that does not ever reach American soil. But, there is a constant battle that America’s youth in destitution must face – violence. This violence exists as a duality – organized due to gangs and yet chaotic because not all violence is gang-related. Naturally, the American … Read more
Sometime as early as August or September 2016, a few teenagers in the small town of Veles, Macedonia, released the first articles of what would become a campaign of misinformation. These hoaxers weren’t concerned with the veracity of their write-ups. Theirs was a language of sensation and virality, not accuracy and ethics. Nor were these … Read more