Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter last Thursday, closing in on a $44 billion deal after months of delays and nearly pulling out of the deal, risking losing $1 billion and almost being taken...
Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow’s conversation at Vanderbilt opened with a playing of the powerful speech that propelled her into the national spotlight earlier this year. “It’s really strange...
On Thursday, Oct. 14, Indigenous leaders protesting the construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline sat in the halls of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the first time since the 1970s, leading to more than...
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While we at VPR have never made a political endorsement, as we are an apolitical forum, the strength of Jay...
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According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, 114 Confederate monuments have been removed from public spaces since 2016. For the average Robert E. Lee stan,...
AUSTIN, Texas – In a virulent showdown of shrewd political posturing and cutthroat negotiations, the Texas Legislature passed a landmark bill, SB9, which mandates that all male residents of the state...
Making political statements on the public stage has been a staple of American history. From Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem, to The Chicks proclaiming that they were “ashamed the...
Andrew Cuomo, longtime political powerhouse and a man once heralded as the face of the Democratic Party, has made the entirely voluntary and not at all politically motivated decision to step down as Governor...
Note: The following anonymous piece of writing was procured by VPR when a manila envelope containing a longer version of the article in an incomprehensible scrawl was slipped under...
Let’s talk about population growth, or rather, overgrowth.
Not only is it ravaging our global food and water supplies, but in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, large oversized populations spark a...
News flash: for the first time, former president Donald Trump took his own advice from The Art of the Deal— and he is paying for it dearly. The Trump Hotel in Washington is going under, adding to a diverse...
What does it mean to say something is Orwellian? Every other week, someone gestures at our political situation and cries “Orwellian” but never seems to explain how exactly it is Orwellian....
