On May 1, 2023, the Writers Guild of America (WGA), a union representing content creators in film, television, and radio, declared that it was going on strike at 12:01 AM. The WGA’s three-year contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) had expired after the two groups had been negotiating topics such…Continue Reading No End in Sight for the 2023 Hollywood Strikes
Supreme Court Strikes Down Notion of Supreme State Legislatures
The decision made in Moore v Harper on June 27th, as with many other Supreme Court decisions, will send reverberations throughout America. In the 6 to 3 decision, the court decided that state legislatures do not have unchecked power in orchestrating and overseeing elections in their states. The ruling dismissed the “independent state legislature” theory,…Continue Reading Supreme Court Strikes Down Notion of Supreme State Legislatures
Republican Majority at Risk: U.S. Supreme Court Sustains Challenges to Louisiana’s 2020 Congressional Maps
WASHINGTON D.C. – In a major blow to Republicans’ already slim majority, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit must hear legal challenges against Louisiana’s congressional district map. This crucial decision comes just a few weeks after Alabama’s district map suffered a similar fate in…Continue Reading Republican Majority at Risk: U.S. Supreme Court Sustains Challenges to Louisiana’s 2020 Congressional Maps
One-Year Anniversary of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade: Continued Division
June 24, 2022: a date that will go down in political history, the day that the Roe V. Wade Supreme Court case was overturned. This landmark piece of legislation, when deemed constitutional, made access to an abortion a federal right in the United States. However, the overturning paved a new road, permitting individual states to…Continue Reading One-Year Anniversary of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade: Continued Division
National World War I Memorial by Aosheng A. Pusztaszeri
Introduction The National World War I Memorial is a national war memorial located at the intersection between 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. Located at Pershing Park, the memorial is dedicated to the men and women who served the U.S. during World War I. The monument achieves this by connecting the visual (the…Continue Reading National World War I Memorial by Aosheng A. Pusztaszeri
Marine Corps War Memorial
200-character Tweet: Visiting the Marine Corps War Memorial will be the most moving experience DC has to offer. Modeled after the famous Iwo Jima photograph, overlooking the nation’s capital, the memorial is sacred and quintessentially American. Blog Post: The United States Marine Corps War Memorial stands “in honor and in memory of the men of…Continue Reading Marine Corps War Memorial
Hill to Hill Podcast, Ep. 42, Deborah Birnbaum of the Office of the United States Trade Representative
The Enduring Issues Course sat down with Deborah Birnbaum of the USTR to discuss international labor issues….Continue Reading Hill to Hill Podcast, Ep. 42, Deborah Birnbaum of the Office of the United States Trade Representative
Hill to Hill Podcast Ep 40 with Helen Eisner and Jeffrey Brown of the Office of Congressional Ethics
The Enduring Issues course sat down with Helen Eisner of the Office of Congressional Ethics to talk about investigating Congress….Continue Reading Hill to Hill Podcast Ep 40 with Helen Eisner and Jeffrey Brown of the Office of Congressional Ethics
The Hill to Hill Podcast, Episode 22: Aimee Cho.
The Enduring Issues Class sat down with Aimee Cho, a general reporter for NBC 4 News in Washington DC, and Cornell ’16 to talk about the life of a reporter in an era of ‘fake news.’ (All comments were by here personally and do not represent the views of NBC 4)….Continue Reading The Hill to Hill Podcast, Episode 22: Aimee Cho.
The Hill to Hill Podcasts (Student Created Spring 2019)
Done by the Enduring Issues students. Ep. 13: The College Bribery Scandal: Ep 14: Jumpstarting the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: Ep. 15: The Technological Rise of China: Ep. 16: North Dakota Id Laws and Native American Disenfranchisement — The Legal Battles Behind Indigenous Voting Rights: Ep. 17: Gerrymandering: Ep. 18: The Brexit…Continue Reading The Hill to Hill Podcasts (Student Created Spring 2019)