By Lennet Penate — Amid growing opposition to China’s repressive policies, the NBA is attempting to balance their players’ and associations’ voices with millions of fans while playing nice with the CCP and profiting from China’s lucrative market.
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By Sam Murray — India Walton’s campaign is a wake-up call. The U.S. needs political parties that are responsive to the needs of constituents. We need change, and we need more people like Walton running for office.
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By Sam Pence — Judicial deference to federal agencies, administrative lawmaking, and executive overreach threaten to widen the already yawning chasm between U.S. citizens and those who shape our laws and society.
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By Stockton Grunewald — Two attempts to advance the president’s agenda have stalled in the House of Representatives. However, Congressional Democrats are now inside the 40-yard line, and we can expect the Build Back Better package to become law.
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By Emily Hoofnagle — Abortion bans endanger reproductive health and don’t reduce abortions. So, what can decrease abortion rates? Easy access to birth control substantially reduces unwanted pregnancies without harming reproductive health.
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By Emily Hoofnagle — The Supreme Court is not ideologically moderate. While the past year proved that judicial restraint remains, the Roberts Court will likely rule conservatively on future decisions in a way that shifts the country further to the right.
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By Rachel Timmons — Most Americans do not expect the criminal justice system to prevent crime and ensure a fair administration of justice. If we want to build safer communities and trust in our justice system, the People’s Response Act offers a way forward.
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By Eden Iscil — In a political era known for its toxic partisanship, substandard bills, and restrictive legislative process tightly controlled by leadership, to argue that complex Senate rules somehow produce the opposite is nonsensical and far removed from reality.
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By Gaspard Delaoustre — Their names were Lexi, Monika, Dustin, Nina, Tony, Summer – all were transgender women and men or nonbinary individuals, and all were killed in 2020. Last year, at least 45 trans and nonbinary people were murdered – a gut-wrenching increase from 2019.
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By Emily Hoofnagle — The past two decades have afforded the United States no shortage of disasters. From Hurricane Katrina to the 2008 financial crisis, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the ongoing pandemic, each year seems to bring a new disaster, with the mega-crisis of global warming looming on the horizon.
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By Samuel Murray — The student debt crisis in the U.S. affects nearly one in every five adults. The U.S. must act now to alleviate this burden as a direct form of stimulus to millions of American.
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By Samuel Murray — Biden has an opportunity to act in this political time as a transformational leader. It is up to him to act, and to give the American people the confident leadership we desperately need.
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By Samuel Pence — In the wake of violent mobs storming the Capitol to protest verified election results, it’s hard for most Americans to recall a time when the prospects of such healing, rebirth, and unity seemed bleaker.
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By Samuel Murray — America’s deep fascination with the abstraction of freedom impedes our ability to govern a fair and just society for all.
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By Samuel Murray — With millions contracting COVID-19 and an ever-rising death toll, the U.S. government has failed, not only to adequately address the rapid spread of disease and death, but to provide a social safety net for all Americans.
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