Society and Culture
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Expendable
Why capitalists don’t care about your health—but should.
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Rugged Individualism, Philanthropy, and Pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic restructured the ways we think about our politics, our activism, and the obligations our values ought to ask of us. Now at the apparent end of the worst of it--but certainly not the ripples it will yield--it may be worth reflecting on what we might learn about rugged individualism and philanthropy through the lens this past year has offered.
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Benefits of a Unified EITC Program
The welfare state has grown increasingly bogged down with inefficient and counterproductive practices. One solution: consolidating the welfare state into a single, empirically-supported system in order to waste less and help more.
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El Museo Nacional del Latino Americano
La incorporación del Museo Nacional del Latino Americano como un gran paso hacia la educación y representación de los casi 60 millones de personas que viven en los Estados Unidos.
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El Impacto del COVID-19 en Los Estudiantes Latinos en Charlottesville
La aparición de COVID-19 ha sido muy impactante en varios aspectos de nuestras vidas. En este artículo vamos a investigar como la pandémica ha impactado estudiantes de Charlottesville, a través de los estudiantes latinos. Sus experiencias son representante de los asuntos causado para los estudiantes de Charlottesville.
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The Arranged Marriage of Republicanism and Country Music
The marriage of the once-dissident country genre and the Republican Party, far from natural and long-standing, was manufactured as a part of Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
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Dolphins, Memes, and the Spread of Online Propaganda: The Legacy of Juan J. Posadas
Online chat boards are a breeding ground for extremist ideology. The newest movement is a resurgence of the 1960s Trotskyist UFO cult known as Posadism.
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Biden’s Mistake of Revoking the Keystone XL Permit
The Keystone XL has received significant opposition, but after considering its economic advantages and minimal risk, President Biden may want to reconsider his decision.
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Welfare Is For Everyone—Let’s Act Like It
Americans don’t understand government welfare, and this ignorance has created a dangerous and unfounded stigma against the poor. We have come to conflate welfare with government handouts, and government handouts with poverty, when in reality welfare plays a large role in all of our lives—and an extensive role in the lives of the rich.
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The Untold Story of Abortion in Politics
Reproductive justice activists across the United States elected the Biden-Harris administration under the condition they would protect the right to an abortion. Without doubt, abortion is a decisive issue for all voters, yet the issue of abortion is dynamic within political and religious history and took key figures and events to make it as politized of an issue as it is today.
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Reimagining the Police
Is there a world in which Americans can live with little to no policing?
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What the GameStop Short Squeeze Says About Our Economic Future
GameStop’s surge in the stock market was an unprecedented event. What does this phenomenon mean for the future of our economy though?
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Jalen Johnson and the NCAA’s Billion Dollar Gamble
Jalen Johnson’s recent departure from Duke, and his treatment in the media afterwards, show how NCAA athletes are still being commodified in the face of COVID-19.
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Twitter’s Dangerous Ban on Trump
Twitter’s permanent ban on Trump is dangerous because Twitter as a public forum for sharing unfiltered ideas unjustifiably censors unpopular opinions assaulting freedom of speech.
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Life Imitates Art Imitates Politics
Twenty-Twenty assured a range of experiences and emotions in times without a conventional “togetherness”-- art was this year's best substitute.
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The Benefits and Flaws of Radical Analyses
Radicals see the right problems but find the wrong solutions.
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As Always, Silence Is Betrayal
The Virginia Review of Politics stands in solidarity with APIDA communities on Grounds, in Charlottesville, and throughout the country.
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Online Fanfiction and the Roots of Online Censorship
Fanfiction has helped shape the internet as we know it. Here's how it might help legislators shape the future of online censorship laws.
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Incarcerated People and Returning Citizens Belong in Democracy Too
Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement laws succeeded in their original purpose. It’s time for a change.
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Food Insecurity in Washington, D.C.
Despite being projected to decrease in the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the food insecurity crisis numbers looming over our nation’s capital have become even more salient. The problem rests in the maldistribution of resources to historically underserved communities, especially Washington, D.C.’s Black population. In order to achieve a solution to the deeply rooted barriers to food justice, non-profit organizations have been at the forefront of addressing the gaps in the city’s policies through an intersectional lens.
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Covid’s Final Affliction: Education Inequality
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools across the United States to abruptly transition to virtual learning. This change has affected millions of students, but especially those who have unequal internet access, don’t have a safe space at home to do their work, etc. This will have long-term consequences for both students and the education system at large.
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I Think You Might Have Slutshamed Queen Esther
Recontextualizing the Biblical heroine means acknowledging the power of unlikely heroes in contemporary political discourse.
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The Logical Fallacy of Trans-Exclusive Feminism
A pervasive fear in the eyes of many, the “bathroom predator” is based on the idea that men will pretend to be women in order to invade women’s restrooms and sexually assault or violate the women who use these gender separated spaces. It stems from a lack of understanding for trans people as well as dehumanizing rhetoric that surrounds the subject.
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The Tokyo Olympics and Abe's False Bravado
The 2020 Olympics scheduled to be held in Tokyo were touted as a “safe bet” compared to other recent Olympic Games given Japan’s status as an industry-leading advanced country. The city has prior experience hosting the games, and the spectacle would have been an incredible springboard to elevate Japan as a world leader in accordance with Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s desire to increase Japan’s involvement in international affairs. In a career filled with large promises, here was a true chance to deliver on the world stage, a worthy keystone in the legacy of Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister.
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Political Influencers and the Alt-Right Pipeline
In the age of online influencers, online personalities are gaining more and more control over our political process. Extremists are taking advantage of a broken system to promote their dangerous ideas— and they’re using the search algorithm to do it.