For years, American lawmakers have promised to “do something” about the harms young people face online. The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is a proposed answer: a federal bill that would impose a new legal “duty of care” on covered online services, including social media platforms, messaging applications, online video games, and streaming services used […]
Two racers are set on their marks. The winner will cement themselves as the dominant force in the world of in-person and online sports gambling. Standing on one side are the federal and state governments of the United States, who look to maximize the taxes and minimize the consumer risks of the activity. Standing opposed […]
I belong to a health care system that does not care, and even when it does, it only cares selectively. The United States spends more on health care than any of its economically comparable peer countries. While we spend upwards of $15,000 annually per person on health care, Germany, Canada, and Japan spend $9,000; $7,000; […]
Introduction Throughout the history of the nation, Americans have been told that their democracy is the most resilient in the world. They have been fed the narrative that the system of checks and balances, the separation of powers, an independent judiciary and a deliberative legislature, would sustain itself against threats. This promise has been the […]
When Prada sent braided leather sandals down a Milan runway last year, its show notes called them simple “leather footwear.” In India, the design has a name: the Kolhapuri chappal, a sandal made by hand in Maharashtra for roughly 800 years. The craft has been associated with Dalit artisan communities and has been protected by […]
Europe has been told to wake up so often that the phrase risks losing its meaning. The sovereign debt crisis exposed weaknesses in Europe’s economic architecture. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed dangerous supply-chain dependencies. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shattered the assumption that large-scale war had disappeared from the continent. At the same time, intensifying competition between […]
On September 16, 2026, President Vladimir Putin delivered his televised address on the eve of the State Duma elections. The opening was purely administrative: which offices were being contested, and the fact that the campaign was unfolding during the “special military operation.” Then, in the same even tone, he noted that Donbas and Novorossiya would […]
The ongoing civil war in Sudan is one of the deadliest conflicts that the world has seen in recent years. It is one of the deadliest conflicts happening in the entire world. and yet the international community is choosing to look the other way because they do not care enough about African nations, and because […]
With rising costs of higher education, attending college is increasingly viewed as an investment in one’s future. Since 1963, the average annual cost of public college tuition has risen 312.4% when adjusted for inflation. Public colleges are those that rely on funding from state and federal governments. In the United States of America, 72.6% of […]
The United States’ National Security Strategy document, released in December 2025, dubbed President Donald Trump “The President of Peace.” This title recognized his role in securing harmony across eight conflicts during his second term in office, as well as normalizing relations between Israel and a number of Arab nations during his first term in the […]
