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2025-2026 Issue I

The Faces of Power: Platon on Capturing Presidents, Dictators, and the People Who Stand Up to Them

Eliza DauntOctober 23, 2025October 23, 2025

Platon is one of the world’s most celebrated photographers, renowned for his portraits of world leaders such as Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Muammar al-Qaddafi, and Bill Clinton, as well as iconic cultural figures including Muhammad Ali, Edward Snowden,…

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The Long Road Out of Stepanakert: The Human Cost Beneath Diplomacy

Kushan MaheshOctober 21, 2025October 26, 2025

What should have been a two-hour drive stretched into twenty. Families pressed their heads against their car windows, watching their homeland slip further away as they fled Artsakh for Armenia.

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Ten Years After Love Won: Jim Obergefell on Marriage Equality Then and Now

Baala ShakyaOctober 20, 2025October 19, 2025

Ten years ago, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, declaring that same-sex couples had a constitutional right to marry in all 50 states. For many Americans, it felt like the close of a bitter chapter—the end of a long legal and cultural war. And for Jim Obergefell, the man whose name now sits atop one of the most significant civil rights rulings in United States history, it felt like the first step toward healing.

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In MAHA We Trust: Inside the Make America Healthy Again Movement

Eleanor BelinfantiOctober 20, 2025October 19, 2025

A typical day in the life of Katlyn Bevington includes waking up, doing a devotional, homeschooling her kids, and putting them to bed. She seems like a regular homeschooling mom. She is anything but. 

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The Headless Party: Inside the Democrats’ Search for Identity in the Age of Trump

Jolynda WangOctober 20, 2025October 19, 2025

The Democratic Party finds itself in a leadership vacuum. The 2024 presidential election was a devastating loss that brought Donald Trump back to the White House, Republicans in control of both chambers of Congress, and the Supreme Court solidly conservative.

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Where Are the Men? The College Enrollment Crisis

Hallie BlackOctober 20, 2025October 19, 2025

Registering for the wrong class permanently changed the educational outlook of Joseph Nelson, PhD. Today, he works to ensure that all young men have equal access to education’s transformative effects. 

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The Politic Episode 11: Texas Democrats Fled the State to Avoid Redistricting—Where Does America Go From Here?

Lily SchecknerOctober 20, 2025October 19, 2025

In August, Democrats in the Texas House fled the state to break quorum in a special session. For two weeks they stayed in Illinois, hoping to delay a redistricting motion put forth by House Republicans, which could gerrymander five seats in the midterm elections.

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The Fragility of Aid: The Fallout of HIV Funding Cuts in South Africa

Avni ChadhaOctober 20, 2025October 19, 2025

In 2005, AIDS claimed the lives of 900 people in South Africa every day. Despite an overwhelming consensus within the biomedical community, Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa at the time and his health ministry maintained their denialist stance. 

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