Mark Lu
- Sep 25, 2018
- 4 min
AU's Price Tag, up Ten Percent since 2016, Keeps Rising
The last institutional budget headed by former American University president Cornelius Kerwin takes effect starting October 1, 2018....
Omkar Hosad
- Sep 23, 2018
- 3 min
Why Bert and Ernie Matter
Sesame Street aired on PBS for the first time on November 10, 1969. Accessible through any television for over four decades, three...
Chris Fenn
- Aug 31, 2018
- 4 min
Cyber Attacks Prove Why Russia is an Adversary
Recently signed into law, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (NDAA) elects to label both China and Russia as...
Mark Lu
- Aug 7, 2018
- 4 min
How The GOP Tax Cuts may have doomed the economy
Two words: stock buybacks. In May, JPMorgan projected that in 2018, S&P 500 companies would invest about $1 trillion (with a "t") stock...
Mark Lu
- Jul 30, 2018
- 7 min
The strangely sensible economics of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been absorbed by the head-spinning political rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old former...
Chris Fenn
- Jul 18, 2018
- 4 min
Weaponizing the World Cup
France emerged victorious from the 2018 FIFA World Cup, an impressive feat having fielded the second-youngest squad in the tournament,...
Mark Lu
- Jul 4, 2018
- 4 min
The Shortsightedness of Trump v. Hawaii
What I found most absurd in Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion in Trump v. Hawaii (the Supreme Court case that upheld the White...
Mark Lu
- May 25, 2018
- 18 min
A Modern-Day Guernica
Noor Darwish is angry. Her people are dying and the government of the country she lives in—the most resourceful and influential in the...