The Independent Newspaper at Wake Forest University Sunday, September 12, 2021
The ongoing 2019 protests in Hong Kong, starting on March 15th, began due to anti-extradition sentiments. The Fugitive Offenders Amendment Bill would allow local authorities in Hong Kong to extradite criminals in areas such as mainland China and Taiwan even though extradition policies between these countries does not exist. How […]
On November 5th, the safe Republican states of Mississippi and Kentucky elected new governors, with the latter flipping to Democrats. Andy Beshear, attorney general of Kentucky, ousted current Republican Matt Bevin in an upset, considering that President Trump carried the state by over 30 points in 2016. Meanwhile in Mississippi, […]
It is just under a year before the 2020 Presidential Election and merely three months from the Iowa caucuses. As the crowded Democratic field vies to produce a nominee, most polls show former Vice President Joe Biden still leading, though Senator Elizabeth Warren has made incredible gains in recent months. […]
In 2019, it is difficult to mention the word “wall” without provoking a Trump-related comment on immigration. Since the declaration of his candidacy for the presidency in June 2015, Donald J. Trump has advocated for the construction of a wall along the southern border of the United States. From his […]
Despite still being over a year away, the 2020 presidential election is already being called “the most important [election]in living memory.” Wait! That quote was from an article in The Guardian back in 2004. As you can see, the media does not hesitate to hype up elections. Regardless, tensions are […]
Why Joe is in trouble. Going into the Democratic primaries the main concern of the candidates seemed to be one thing in particular: electability. Electability serving as a unifying goal of the party with one objective in mind: defeat President Trump. But in the race to represent the DNC, schisms […]
After nearly two years, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US Election and possible collusion with Donald Trump’s campaign. While the report is not yet public, U.S. Attorney General William Barr summarized Mueller’s findings in a four-page letter and found no evidence […]
Awaiting our arrival to Reynolda Campus from Spring Break was the college admissions bribery scandal that shook up every news media outlet, and most of upper-class America. Unearthed in the FBI operation dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues,” Wake Forest University was named as one of the schools that was implicated in […]
On February 14th, President Trump, impatient and unhappy with what he believed to be insufficient progress on the construction of his border wall, opted to try kick-starting the process through declaring a national emergency. This declaration enables him to siphon money unmolested from federal drug programs […]
Zero-sum games are tricky. Sometimes, they are necessary scenarios to engage in; sometimes, there is no middle-ground, and you either win or lose. You are either right or wrong. That being said, these all-or-nothing instances are not always the best choice due to their penchant for stoking paranoia and extremism. […]