February 2017 – Northeastern University Political Review

National February 6, 2017

Political Satire in the Era of Trump

by Jillian Wrigley, Business Administration and Political Science 2021

Donald Trump, reality TV star and celebrity billionaire, is shown on television descending down an escalator inside one of his infamous hotels, announcing to an adoring crowd that he will run for the office of President of the United States. When writer Dan Greaney wrote this scene into an episode of The Simpsons sixteen years […]

Global February 6, 2017

Never Again and Other Lies

by Neiha Lasharie, Political Science & International Affairs 2018

I don’t remember when I became aware of the reality of the Holocaust. At some point, between heavily censored history books with veiled allusions to the fact, an unprecedented access to the Internet, and Zlata’s Diary, my presumably too-young mind was forced to grapple with the systematic murder of millions of people. Millions. Numbers are […]