Twenty-Twenty assured a range of experiences and emotions in times without a conventional “togetherness”-- art was this year's best substitute.
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What did Donald Trump’s presidency illustrate about the strengths and weaknesses of the Presidency and other American institutions? What does this tell us about what reforms we must enact?
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Radicals see the right problems but find the wrong solutions.
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Obama and Springsteen’s “Renegades: Born in the USA” represents the further entangling of celebrity and political life. Yet, it might also suggest a hope for egalitarian storytelling taking arms against polarization.
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In 2020, the Lincoln Project exploded into a massive, uncontrollable powerhouse in American politics. In 2021, it fell apart. As its founders consider how to move forward, it has become clear that its best option is to shut down completely.
From employee-owned mom-and-pops to large-scale enterprises, worker co-ops offer a compelling, sustainable, and democratic alternative to the traditional top-down business model.
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The Virginia Review of Politics stands in solidarity with APIDA communities on Grounds, in Charlottesville, and throughout the country.
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Fanfiction has helped shape the internet as we know it. Here's how it might help legislators shape the future of online censorship laws.
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Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement laws succeeded in their original purpose. It’s time for a change.
The mass adoption and innovation of technology has enabled leaderless movements to become more viable as we see happening around the globe.
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Marx's thought has often been described as scientific. But Marx's science was quite different from our understanding of science.
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Despite being projected to decrease in the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the food insecurity crisis numbers looming over our nation’s capital have become even more salient. The problem rests in the maldistribution of resources to historically underserved communities, especially Washington, D.C.’s Black population. In order to achieve a solution to the deeply rooted barriers to food justice, non-profit organizations have been at the forefront of addressing the gaps in the city’s policies through an intersectional lens.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools across the United States to abruptly transition to virtual learning. This change has affected millions of students, but especially those who have unequal internet access, don’t have a safe space at home to do their work, etc. This will have long-term consequences for both students and the education system at large.
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Recontextualizing the Biblical heroine means acknowledging the power of unlikely heroes in contemporary political discourse.
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“We thought our dreams would be more visible under Obama. They’re not.” - Andrew Jackson II
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The United States in the West, from Manifest Destiny to Super-Fires
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To end the disillusionment and financial insecurity that fueled the GameStop incident, we need Wall Street reform.
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As the Taiwanese adopt a stronger anti-China, pro-independence attitude, the Kuomintang will fall increasingly out of favor as the Democratic Progressive Party gains power and popularity.
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What happened and what can we learn from it?
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A pervasive fear in the eyes of many, the “bathroom predator” is based on the idea that men will pretend to be women in order to invade women’s restrooms and sexually assault or violate the women who use these gender separated spaces. It stems from a lack of understanding for trans people as well as dehumanizing rhetoric that surrounds the subject.
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