On April 1, President Donald Trump publicly stated on Twitter that a United States Census without a citizenship question would be “a waste,” questioning the judgment of the Democratic Party’s stance. If passed by the Supreme Court, the citizenship question would be the first of its kind since 1950 —Read More
On April 8, the United Kingdom released a 102-page white paper, entitled the Online Harms White Paper, that outlines future plans to penalize social media and technology companies that don’t take steps to protect users from harmful, fake, or dangerous content. Companies that don’t conform could face heavy fines andRead More
On Sunday, April 7, Kirstjen Nielsen resigned as the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. Her resignation marks the end of a highly contested tenure during which people from both sides of the political spectrum expressed their discontent with her performance. Liberals ardently opposed Nielsen’s treatment of families trying toRead More
Last Monday, April 15, the world watched helplessly as Notre-Dame, Paris’s beloved 800-year-old Gothic cathedral, burned. The devastating fire, which firefighters fought for twelve hours, resulted in the loss of the church’s 300-foot spire, portions of its medieval roof, and a countless number of its relics. The church’s stone exteriorRead More
The recent measles outbreak in the United States has defied norms. The disease, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared eliminated in 2000, has resurfaced in recent years, with the number of reported cases rising from 120 in 2017 to 372 in 2018. In just the first fourRead More
In recent weeks, a fierce debate has ignited among the people of Canada in response to a new bill introduced in Quebec. The most widely controversial aspect of Bill 21 is a section that, in an attempt to support the “secularism” of the province, bans public servants from wearing religiousRead More
For the first time, Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has found his name and “scandal” in the same sentence. A month ago, former Canada Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould accused the prime minister of pressuring her to drop prosecution against SNC-Lavalin, a prominent engineering firm. The company, based in Trudeau’s homeRead More
Too Often, Shooting Survivors’ Mental Health is Neglected For the past two weeks, people across the country have been mourning the loss of three people to apparent suicide. These suicides seem to have been caused by one common factor: the mass shootings that turned their lives upside down. SydneyRead More
On Tuesday, March 19, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces captured the village of Baghouz in Syria. Following the victory, they celebrated with a large parade and a bright yellow flag — after more than four years, ISIS has finally lost all of its territory in Iraq and Syria. TheRead More
