Editor-in-Chief Ravin Bhatia discusses the need for legislative reform in Congress following conflicts of interest due to corruption in stock trades.
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Editor-in-Chief analyzes Harris-Walz Campaign loss, comments on reasons for Democratic loss
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Nearly 25 years later, the legacy of Columbine still haunts America. It was a devastating wake up call about the potential for mass violence, especially at the hands of teenagers, and marked the beginning of an era of active shooter drills, lockdowns, and heightened security in high schools all across America. But although the tragedy galvanized the citizens of America and inspired the anti gun violence movement we know today, that momentum for reform never materialized into concrete federal laws. Year after year, mass shooting after mass shooting, the demands for change remained unmet by Congress. We must break this vicious pattern. It’s time to finally embrace comprehensive gun legislation measures that show that we have learned from these tragedies.
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Former President Donald J. Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts in a New York City trial, in which jurors took 9 hours to bring back a verdict. This historic trial represents the first time a former president has been convicted of a crime, let alone a felony. After the verdict was returned President Trump spoke to reporters in which he started with a very forward comment, “This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt” before he remarked that the trial “was done by the Biden administration to wound or hurt an opponent” finally saying that “we’ll fight til the end and we’ll win because our country’s gone to hell”.
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The 2024 election seems to be the most tumultuous and, in some aspects, the most surprising election in recent years. This battle pits two adversaries who have known each other for decades: Joe Biden, the 81-year-old Democrat from Delaware who was its longest-serving senator and the vice president for Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, the 77-year-old diametrically opposed Republican from New York whose real estate business was sued in 1973 for racial discrimination. After the 2020 election conspiracies, which sowed seeds of Republican distrust among the Biden administration, the Biden administration has been carefully scrutinized, villainized, and sometimes even outright defamed by Trump’s Republican base. But in the face of Trump’s actions and his conviction in a criminal trial today, which has made him the only president in American history to be convicted of a crime, many believe that race should have no question as to who wins and who loses. However, new polling data paints a much more complicated picture from the perspective of the youth and ethnic minority constituencies. According to polling data from the Catalist, in 2020, Biden led African American voters, Hispanic voters, and voters younger than 30 years of age by 79, 35, and 23 points, respectively, as compared to Trump. However, in 2024, Biden has 3 points less than Trump for young voters, according to a poll by the New York Times. Almost every single poll taken this year as compared to 4 years ago, shows a significant and noticeable decrease in Black and Hispanic support for Biden’s campaign.
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Over the last few months, I have become increasingly invested in the contentious Maryland Senate race. There are two main Democrats running: wealthy, self-funded Democratic candidate David Trone and public-funded former county executive Angela Alsobrooks, who would, if elected, become the 3rd elected black female Senator in US history. While Trone has focused on sending floods of mail-out campaign ads and gaining endorsements from political figures across the state and country, Angela Alsobrooks’ campaign has focused on more traditional methods of canvassing like door-knocking and phone-banking to gain support. They are both competing against popular Maryland Republican and former governor, Larry Hogan, who served two terms and was elected in a predominately blue-state, showing his bipartisan support from both democrats and republicans. As the primary approaches, Trone and Alsobrooks have been pinned up against one another to determine who has the chance to go against Hogan in the fall. And as both campaigns have worked on building a large online presence and stand for similar principles, their funding and methods of canvassing have set them apart. Having volunteered on the Alsobrooks campaign, I fear that her methods of traditional canvassing will lead to her campaign’s downfall.
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Since we were little, the routine has been to wake up, brush our teeth, hop on the bus, and get to school. But COVID-19 completely changed our whole lives, especially for kids. With the simplicity of online school, we lost the normalcy of interacting with teachers and other students. It could be the ease of catching up on missed work online or simply a lack of motivation to get up in the morning. Whatever the reason, there has been a substantial decrease in student attendance.
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On March 27, 2023, the Nashville community mourned after the mass shooting at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in the Green Hills neighborhood. 28-year-old Aiden Hale, a former student of the school, killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults before being shot and killed by two Metropolitan Nashville Police officers. In the immediate aftermath of this tragedy, young people from across the state took to the streets to demand gun safety legislation be passed. Amid these demonstrations, what we now know as ‘The Tennessee Three’ forced the Tennessee House into a standstill. Reps Justin J Pearson, Gloria Johnson, and Justin Jones took control of the well and stood with protestors to pressure their colleagues to pass substantial gun safety legislation. Over a couple of months, Reps Pearson and Jones got expelled from the House and eventually reelected in a special election. These events led to the national media eying out the Tennessee legislature. 'The Tennessee Three' aside, who are the key people and rising stars within the Tennessee Democratic Party?
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Joe Biden’s age is not the problem. The problem is the age of America’s voter base. Many groups have been enfranchised and disenfranchised throughout history, and as the 2024 elections are coming up, should Congress extend the right of enfranchisement to 16- and 17-year-olds?