Blame Obama and EU leaders for Russia occupying Crimea, not Trump

April 25, 2025

Blame Obama and EU leaders for Russia occupying Crimea, not Trump

As a student at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Political Science and Russian and Eastern European Studies, there was a real-world application assignment where we analyzed what it would take for Russia to abandon its occupation of Crimea. We discussed imposing sanctions, theorized about freezing assets, and discussed several other geopolitical resolutions. Ultimately, we […]

Gen Z political gap bodes well for marriage

As there often is among people in their 20s, a gap is growing within Generation Z regarding experience and preference. Their political divergence is a growing factor that holds implications for the future of marriage. Most indicators suggest that the long-standing decline of marriage will continue — cultural trends certainly point in that direction. The […]

Pope Francis’s complicated relationship with the United States

Americans greeted Pope St. John Paul II with open arms during his seven visits to the United States. Pundits often said he received a rockstar welcome, but perhaps only the Beatles in 1964 were met with greater adulation than the Polish pontiff. Pope Francis received a more tepid response during his lone visit to America […]

The world-shattering effects of the US-China AI race

There is no shortage of books or reports on the U.S.-China rivalry, especially as artificial intelligence portends to become a nuclear-like inescapable linchpin of this competition. We recently extensively dealt here with the geopolitical consequences of the AI race as laid bare in the “Super Intelligence Strategy” paper by Eric Schmidt and two executives from […]

Elite universities should stop digging themselves into a hole

Elite universities are so determined to fight the Trump administration that they’ve decided to double down on their antisemitism, and stick with anti-Israel protestors and ideological rigidity. If they hadn’t abandoned scholarly rigor years ago, they’d remember the first rule of finding yourself in a hole. Stop digging. The confrontation breaking out between universities and […]

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Ketanji Brown Jackson makes a powerful argument for school choice

During oral arguments in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson unintentionally made a practical and convincing case for universal school choice. A few years back, the school board in Montgomery County, Maryland, instituted an “LGBTQ-inclusive” curriculum that included storybooks for children as young as prekindergarten. The books are ostensibly part […]

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