Last weekend, Attorney General William Barr submitted a four-page summary of the conclusions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice charges against President Trump and members of his 2016 presidential campaign. The long-awaited report found no evidence of collusion between Trump or his associates with the Russians in 2016, and it provided no...
There has been a sharp decline in the number of individuals getting vaccinated over the course of several years globally. Research has shown that whooping cough, which is a vaccine-preventable disease, has increased in recent years following a sharp decline after 1970. This can be linked to the fact that vaccination rates have decreased. Preventing students from attending school...
An Oct. 2018 lawsuit regarding Harvard’s alleged discriminatory admissions process against Asian-Americans garnered national media attention, bringing to light at least two issues in affirmative action and where Asians should stand on it.
In a country so concerned about polarizing colors like black and white or blue and red politics, Asian-Americans don’t always fit one political mold. Coinciding with the...
The Netflix series "Tidying Up With Marie Kondo" has taken the world by storm since its debut. The star of the show, Marie Kondo, is a pleasant Japanese consultant who helps people clean up their habitually cluttered homes. Initially, she inspired many, gaining fans around the world with her positive methods and ideology concerning cleanliness and organization. However, in...
This past Saturday, President Donald Trump gave a speech that essentially reflected how he presents himself to the people of this country each and every day: without dignity or morality. Ironically, this speech was given at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), an organization that espouses the same “family values” that the Republican Party as of late seems to...
On Feb. 20, it was made public that the family of Nicholas Sandmann was suing The Washington Post for a hefty $250 million over the rhetoric the paper used to report an incident involving a viral video from the Jan. 18 March for Life Rally in Washington D.C. The video itself was making its rounds in the media, but...
In June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union on March 29, 2019. For the past three years, the U.K. has been struggling to formulate an effective leave arrangement with the EU that has the approval of the British Parliament, and every attempt at a meaningful plan has been voted down; this leaves the U.K. with...
Since 1962, Myanmar has been, in one form or another, under autocratic military control, punctuated by disregard for civil rights and democratic institutions. Only recently did the military regime slowly shift towards democracy, holding democratic elections in 2010, the first in nearly half a century. However, in 2016, the military began a state-led persecution against the nation’s Muslim minority....
Like a superhero that has gone into retirement, President Obama has been absent from politics since his term as president ended in 2016. However, this does not mean that he has completely abandoned politics. In fact, the former president has indirectly been involved in attempts to ensure that he leaves a legacy behind to combat the opposition long after...
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In a recent editorial titled “What we need and don’t need from progressives in the age of Trump,” the Highlander Editorial Board argued that the insurgent, left-wing movement led by freshmen House Democrats such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (popularly known as AOC), Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar is both damaging to the Democratic Party...