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William Priess The current negotiations between Iran and the U.S. highlight the near impossibility of open and honest negotiation with an unreliable state. Currently, the Trump administration is in talks with the Iranian government to end their nuclear weapons program (“Program”), or failing that, is expected to launch a strike to further destroy the Iranian […]

Ben Forsberg Across the United States, headlines have emerged about retirees losing savings to crypto investment scams[1] and CEOs tricked into wiring company funds to offshore wallets.[2] Most of the attention has focused on financial victims, but far less attention has been paid to the other side of the scam networks—the trafficked workers who are

Paige Murphy As immigration raids have been ravaging our nation, alarm bells are going off regarding the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[1] Is the risk of bringing thousands of international athletes and global observers into a hotbed of curated immigration crisis worth the reward of the ego boost and apparent reputational benefit for the

Alana McBane Fundamental to an American’s sense of liberties is the well-guarded right to the freedom of speech, as enshrined by the First Amendment. The impulse to protect this right to almost its absolute emanates from this nation’s founding moments in which the American Revolution was a direct result of an oppressive regime that hindered

David Eide On November 17, Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister of Bangladesh, was sentenced to death in absentia by the Bangladeshi International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) for crimes against humanity stemming from her government’s lethal crackdown on student protestors during the July 2024 Revolution.[1] This sentence is particularly notable because the ICT had initially been

Jordan Visina The Olympic Games have long been portrayed as a sanctuary from global politics where international cooperation briefly eclipses geopolitical conflict. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres recently stated that the Olympics “are an excellent moment to symbolize peace and respect for international law and international cooperation.”[1] Yet, history suggests otherwise. From Cold War boycotts

Thomas Plunkett The Bolivarian Republic has always had the ire of Washington. Amidst renewed saber-rattling—extrajudicial drone strikes on “narcos,”[1] amphibious landing drills in Puerto Rico,[2] and carrier group deployments in the Caribbean[3]—Washington’s jus ad bellum: electoral illegitimacy and narco-corruption,[4] are symptoms. The deeper issue is alignment. Venezuela exited the American sphere-of-influence twenty-six years ago and

Alexander Anthony In March 2014, satellite imagery showed a Chinese vessel dredging up sand near Cuarteron Reef—a submerged coral reef in the Spratly Islands.[1] Less than a year later, part of the reef had risen above sea level, and was littered with construction equipment.[2] Seven years after that, the island was fully settled, containing vegetation,

Keaton Zeimet On President Trump’s first day in office, his administration ordered billions of dollars in international aid frozen,[1] which would result in a cascading domino effect with several trips to the Supreme Court and a seldom-used executive tool. In an executive order, the Trump Administration froze billions of dollars in international aid to determine

Jiakang Yu Generative artificial intelligence now produces expressive works—images, music, code, even legal analysis—that resemble human creativity with increasing sophistication. Yet copyright systems around the world still assume that authorship is exclusively human. As states scramble to update their intellectual property regimes, the question of whether AI-generated works deserve legal protection has become one of