by Christy Yao — An essential part of our democracy is the people getting to vote on particularly important or controversial issues. This...

by Grace Aquilina — As of September 26th, Amy Coney Barrett is the Supreme Court nominee to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg....

by Stephanie Hauer — In Spring, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos revealed changes to Title IX. Title IX is a law that prohibits...

by Liz P. — Marquis Jaylen “JB” Brown was a star student-athlete at Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, a Catholic university in...

By Maria Oswalt — On February 23, 2020, 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by two men in a truck while he was going for a run in...

by Stephanie Hauer — All human beings deserve justice, and our country has enshrined in its legislation the right for a fair trial. Even...

In the light of the #MeToo movement, where people around the world are sharing their stories of sexual harassment, rape, and abuse in the...

by Herb Geraghty Anyone who follows the news could conclude that the United States justice system is anything but just. Particularly,...

Texans love the fact that they’re from Texas. Walk down the streets of any small town in Texas, stop someone and ask them why the love...

I am a very proud and enthusiastic Virginian. In my free time, I enjoy getting into arguments about how it is by far the superior of the...

BY MAXIME VILLENEUVE Photo by publik15; some rights reserved. According to the New York Times, there are well over 25,000 inmates in the...

BY AIMEE MURPHY This'll be a brief little treatise. I don't have a whole lot of time before I leave for DC for a couple of days. But...

BY AIMEE MURPHY "Juries are a little more reluctant to mete out the death penalty to a woman than a man," Andy Silverman, a law professor...

BY JEN ROTH Most of the talk of reproductive rights in mainstream politics and media in the United States revolves around not bearing...

BY AIMEE BEDOY if you believe in the dignity of human life -- how can you sit idly by, while thousands and millions of humans die by the...

BY AIMEE BEDOY The cult of celebrity reaches far and wide and covers a multitude of sins, it seems. At least in the United States, fans...

BY NICHOLAS NEAL During a discussion of abortion, one of my classmates -- a political progressive -- stated that abortion was needed in...

BY NICHOLAS NEAL On September 21, 2011, Troy Davis was executed after failing to appeal to the Supreme Court for a 22-year death row case...

BY NICHOLAS NEAL The abolition of the death penalty in Illinois began when Governor George Ryan placed a moratorium on capital punishment...

BY AIMEE BEDOY & STEVEN OETJEN A quandary of major proportions faces our nation in this day and age. It could be a matter of life and...