The 2023 United States Debt Ceiling Crisis: How Does It End?
In early January 2023, Janet Yellen, the US Secretary of the Treasury, alerted Congress that the US would reach its debt limit of slightly over 31 trillion US dollars by More
Why Georgia is not a Purple State… Yet
Georgia On My Mind On December 6th, 2022, Democrat Raphael Warnock celebrated re-election to his first full six-year term as a United States Senator from the state of Georgia, declaring More
A “Final Offer”: Why it Could be in the Interest of the United States to Reach an Agreement with Iran?
In 2015, Iran reached an agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with major powers, including the United States, to ensure the civilian character of Iran’s nuclear More
The Biden Presidency and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Problems and Opportunities
On March 1st, U.S. President Joe Biden gave his first State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress. While staple issues like immigration, healthcare, and infrastructure dominated More
Op-Ed: How the West Lost Russia
With Russia launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and relations between Moscow and Washington reaching unprecedented depths, one can only wonder how tensions escalated so much. Three decades ago, with More
Redistricting in the United States: How it Might Influence Control of the House
“We have decided to win, and that’s what we’ll do,” was how a defiant Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, responded to a question regarding the Democratic Party’s More
The “submarine crisis” : A Threat to NATO Cooperation ?
The “submarine crisis” : a threat to NATO cooperation ? This was “a stab in the back” according to the French foreign minister. France’s ambassadors from the United States and More
Opinion: UN Mission Set to Leave Darfur as Violence Continues
The United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur, or UNAMID, is set to expire on December 31, 2020. Formed in July 2007 to stabilize the Darfur region of Sudan during the More
The Case for Centralization in Times of COVID-19
Around the world, the spread of the coronavirus has presented new challenges to governments and opened debates regarding some of the fundamental principles that shape our political systems. A particular More
COVID-19 and Chicago’s Black Community: Following The Deadly Reality of Health Inequity
On March 16th, Patricia Frieson, a 61-year-old black woman, passed away at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she had tested positive for COVID-19. She was a retired nurse More