As COVID-19 ravaged the world, Japan’s economy shrank more than at any time since data tracking began in 1980. New Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will undoubtedly make the recovery his top priority. But Suga should also properly address overconcentration in Tokyo, a serious problem that prolonged the pandemic. Immediately after Japan declared a state of […]
Listen and subscribe to our podcast: Via Spotify | Via Apple Podcasts This week, Max talks with Julian Fuchsberg, one of the NUPR magazine editors, about the 2021 New York City Mayoral Election. They discuss some of the Democratic and Republican contenders as well as the relationship between city politics and national politics. Julian also shares some of […]
From “Medicare for All” to a full private option, health-care reform is a widely debated key issue this election cycle. While politicians discuss the topic, there must be an emphasis on the characteristics of an effective health-care system—efficacy, equity, affordability, and accountability. Efficacy measures a health-care system’s capacity to perform an intended task—a vital gauge […]
Motivational speaker Simon Sinek once said, “Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.” Washington’s North Korea policy doesn’t follow this adage, instead negotiating for total denuclearization instead of small victories. Complete, Verifiable, Irreversible Denuclearization can be the goal. The idea isn’t new; however, as President Clinton’s chief negotiator with North Korea Robert Gallucci […]
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have once again found themselves comparing their national health-care policies to those of countries with universal health care. The allure of single-payer health care is clear—particularly as costs continue to rise and we enter a global recession. As productive as it may seem, universal health care is not […]
You see the picture right there? The one of the Federal Reserve headquarters? You see the trees growing in front of it? They’re the closest we’ve come to money growing on trees. That’s because the Fed governors inside have a special tool, one they’ve used plenty during the pandemic to inject liquidity into large financial […]
The Nile River is a contentious issue. As Ethiopia constructs a new dam along the Blue Nile, its neighbors fear this will threaten their water supply. However, the Nile faces a more imminent threat than Ethiopia’s project: water hyacinth. Water hyacinth originates from the Amazon basin but was exported to warm temperate and tropical regions […]
Through patterns of industrialization and globalization, humanity has built planet-altering power. Daily activities as mundane as making coffee in the morning increase our chemical and ecological footprint. Sea levels rise at a startling rate of over an eighth of an inch per year and our oceans have lost two percent of their oxygen in half […]
Illustration by Emily Rubin (Business Administration 2022) In 1965, African American author James Baldwin took part in a debate at Cambridge University against William F. Buckley, founder of National Review and staunch opponent of the Civil Rights movement. They discussed whether “the American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.” I often come […]
Listen and subscribe to our podcast: Via Spotify | Via Apple Podcasts This week, Max talks with Alex Jarecki, one of the magazine editors at NUPR, about some of the major barriers to voting and participating in American democracy both historically and specifically in 2020. They discuss some of the challenges regarding voting in 2020 as well as […]
