Narcan has the potential to drastically reduce overdose deaths in Virginia.
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In order for Egypt to truly undergo the ‘Religious Revolution,’ the government needs to get rid of the Blasphemy laws. I examine the state of the blasphemy laws in Egypt and how they are perpetuating a stagnation of reformation.
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President Trump’s dysfunctional interactions with foreign leaders make for interesting headlines, though more tectonic is the present administration’s shifting expression of American exceptionalism, shaky commitment to liberal internationalism, and turn toward a harsh zero-sum logic of foreign relations. But while “America First” may not be here to stay, pressures on the U.S. to move toward a more realist mindset predate and will endure beyond the Trump presidency.
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The 2016 election cycle was an anomaly among all the rest. After witnessing the revolutionary strategies of the candidates, I had a desire to explore the events the changed the art of campaigning for the rest of American History. The inception of radio, television, and the Internet changed how candidates related to the public and how the public responded. Although these innovations have brought a great deal of convenience to Americans during elections, it does not reflect in greater voter awareness. So, have campaigns truly evolved for the good for America?
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What happens when the political sphere is run by amateur thespians?
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Virginia has an unsavory record on business regulations and limitations to economic freedom. As the Commonwealth looks to become a national powerhouse for development in the 21st century, it will accordingly need less stringent economic policies to encourage this growth. As the most electable alternative to flopping Democratic policies, Ed Gillespie’s Republican campaign is the key to unlocking this potential.
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As the nation grows increasingly divided over the “culture war” - between bullpen catchers and geriatric Republican Twitter users - they ignore America’s threatening expansion of militarism abroad. The threatening possibility of entering legitimate, destructive war.
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The reputation of trans fats has run the health gamut from nutritionally exceptional to borderline lethal. It took over two decades of research to accumulate enough evidence to finally ban partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) in the United States, and this significant time lapse is not without criticism. However, the twenty-four year period of of true scientific inquiry prevented shortsighted and unsound policies and had the ultimate effect of contributing to the overall health of the American public.
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Issues in developing nations are wide-ranging and ongoing, but we rarely hear about them in the United States. Are we paying enough attention?
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On September 18, concerned Charlottesville-ians gathered to expose the deeply rooted issues behind the white supremacist siege on August 12. The Columbia Journalism Review’s Race, Racism and the News panel allowed the community an opportunity to acknowledge, discuss, and heal from rising racial tensions in Charlottesville and across the nation.
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United States vindicationist promotion of democracy throughout the world is much more convoluted and multifaceted than what meets the eye, and while it is said to be done in the name of goodwill to other nations, self-interested ulterior motives lie at the heart of it. All anyone need do to see proof of this is take a look at the history of US exploitative relations with the developing country of Guatemala.
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The 2016 US Presidential Election bucked years of politics-as-usual and marked a revolutionary shift in how Americans decide who is best fit to be the nation’s leader. Or did it? An inspection of the last forty years of American elections appears to uncover a far longer trend at work, one that can be traced from the modern day all the way back to the greatest political scandal in American history.
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The Supreme Court should side with privacy when considering warrantless searches of electronic devices at the borders.
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The artificial intelligence revolution threatens to transform the social and economic landscape worldwide. The United States must respond by providing a basic social safety net for workers who are slated to be replaced.
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The rise today of China as a great power has shaken the United States’ hegemonic grip on world influence. Will it end in war like it did for Athens and Sparta in Thucydides time?
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Food waste is a global issue that humans have the responsibility to take action to eliminate.
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Public officials decry the way that people politicize tragedies to dodge questions and shut down debate. We should reclaim this pejorative and make politicizing a tragedy a good thing.
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America’s current electoral system is creating a stale and hyper-partisan political climate. Ranked-choice voting, however, can change this. This election method has the power to provide diversity in elections, allow a candidate with an actual majority to win an election, and reinvigorate American politics.
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How can slavery exist in our supposedly post-racial land of the free? The realities and verities of systemic racism in relation to the prison industrial complex and the American prison system.
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Net neutrality is a serious issue that many Americans, including those that consider themselves well informed, know next-to-nothing about. The issue has been described as “the First Amendment Issue of our time,” and yet most people do not know where they stand on the issue.
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