As more frequent and intense natural disasters drive migrants from their homes in unprecedented numbers, today’s crisis at the southwest border will pale in comparison to the potential disaster that awaits inaction.
— Carly Kabot
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As the Biden administration tackles climate change, investing in cheap, scalable and environmentally sustainable energy storage will be key to America’s success.
— Zega Ras-Work
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The filibuster is currently standing in the way of ensuring that every American has a say in their government. As long as the filibuster exists, crucial issues like racial injustice, climate change and income inequality will remain unresolved.
— Takuya Amagai
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The Atlanta shooting has highlighted America’s reckoning with racism targeted toward Asians. Nonetheless, it is critical we do not haphazardly ignore the intersectional issue of violence against women, nor irresponsibly conflate individuals of Asian descent with policies of Asian states.
— Robin Huang
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If America wants to honor its moral commitment to being a safe haven, the US government must recommit to refugee resettlement by raising the refugee cap to the 1980 level or higher.
— Nicolas Gardner
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Aside from his undeniably racist, sexist, homophobic, and climate change denying shtick, Rush Limbaugh’s legacy is ultimately weakened by his nurturing of conservative populism that led to the election of Donald Trump.
— Jimmy FitzPatrick
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Women in power are still the exception, not the norm. This Women’s History Month, let’s work towards at last shattering the glass ceiling so many incredible women.
— Lindsey Gradowski
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Schools must go beyond the textbook to teach about Black history. Statewide curriculums on slavery, the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement don’t go far enough.
— Ritika Manathara
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Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, country music is experiencing its own racial reckoning. Black country artists and Black rural voters share a lot in common: they exist in mostly white environments where they face oppression and rejection, yet their influence continues to grow.
— Junior Mwemba
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You see phrases like “white silence is violence,” but the silence from the South Asian community in regards to racial justice for the Black community can be quite deafening as well. More than silence, there is active prejudice against the black community.
— Srishti Khemka
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Two recent House votes demonstrate the conflicts between Republican party traditions and Trumpism for elected officials.
— Alex Seitel
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Texas’ sudden extreme weather event exposed American’s current water supply system’s problems, leaving 156,000 people are without water at all. The U.S. should look towards China’s model of a tripartite government-enterprise cooperation model involving local governments, large technology suppliers and the local small and medium-sized enterprises.
— Haoyang Li, Wejia Ma and Qihan Li
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Jared Kushner and Avi Berkowitz forged breakthroughs in long-stalled negotiations between Israel and Arab nations by rejecting central tenets of the foreign policy establishment, an approach that the Biden administration can adapt to build a more secure and prosperous Middle East.
— Charles Chapman
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President Joe Biden’s promise to halt all relevant arms sales to Saudi Arabia and appoint a senior diplomat to Yemen should only be the start of a long and arduous road towards peace.
— Himaja Reddy
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The freakish weather Texas experienced last week offered the state a taste of how serious climate disaster really is. To make progress, we have to change the narrative of climate change being a future problem.
— Alannah Nathan
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For the Democratic Party, a big tent is necessary to maintain a governing coalition. Unless Democrats can win red and purple states, the party will be stuck with bare majorities or worse.
— Andrew Morin
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Virginia, the state with the record of executions since 1608, is abolishing the death penalty. Now, other states must join Virginia in working towards a more just nation.
— Lindsey Gradowski
After years of defending Trump, many Republicans are left questioning what their party stands for. Reforms are desperately needed to undo the damage of the Trump era, but equally as important is the call to challenge what our political parties mean today.
— Sophie Tafazzoli
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The tumultuous few weeks leading up to President Joe Biden’s inauguration demonstrates the need to consider shortening the length of time between the presidential election and Inauguration Day.
— Ethan Johanson
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Wasting no time, President Biden’s decision to reenter the Paris Agreement in his first hours in office marks the country’s initial steps toward reasserting its international environmental leadership. Yet, environmental reforms have become increasingly steeped in partisanship. One of the most monumental influences is visible to us daily: the rise of social media and the transformation of the U.S. news.
— Christina Luke
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