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In January 2024, Florida International University (FIU) arrived at the final step of a long partnership. The school terminated several of its successful partnerships with Chinese universities, including a Spanish language program, engineering programs, and a dual-degree hospitality program. FIU’s…
On a brisk November evening in New Haven, the bus was on time. On a CT Transit bus, a young man clad in a fast food uniform was asleep. A middle-aged mother gripped tightly onto a stroller where her daughter…
*Note: The student “Joseph” is referred to by a pseudonym to protect his privacy as a minor. In the fall of 2021, Garden Grove’s Sunnyside Elementary reopened its doors, returning to in-person learning after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down Southern…
In the beginning of the 19th century, New Orleans was one of the United States’ wealthiest and largest cities. Its port shipped the produce of the American interior to worldwide markets, and wealthy merchants walked the streets in the latest…
In a recent video released by March of Dimes, a pregnant mother named Claudia declares that she will likely give birth in a car. The nearest hospital is a thirty minute-drive from her home. Claudia recalls giving birth to her…
“People from the Right were just hissing at me and hissing at me and that made me very nervous and it honestly kind of ruined my first speaking experience… It kind of made me realize that maybe I wasn’t going…
In February 2023, former Vice President Mike Pence (R) took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to voice his opinion on ESG investing—a type of investing that focuses on environmental, social, and governance factors. “Disappointing that President Biden is putting…
“You go in with this dream of what consulting is,” said Nathan, a Yale student whose name has been changed and who spoke to The Politic under conditions of anonymity. “And you can quickly become disillusioned because it is just…
