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Vanderbilt Political Review

Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

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Supreme Court Paves the Way for Arrests Based on Race and Language

Jared Contant, Contributor October 23, 2025

On June 9, 2025, federal agents arrived at a tow yard in Montebello, Calif. in white unmarked SUVs “carrying handguns and military style rifles,” where they found 29-year-old Jason Gavidia, a U.S....

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The Danse Macabre of American Politics

Caleb Anderson, Senior Editor October 22, 2025

In medieval Europe, artists painted visions of the danse macabre: a grim procession where kings, bishops, peasants, and fools were all dragged into step by the grinning skeleton of death. It was a spiritual...

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A New Axis? An Analysis of the Resurgence of Far-Right Politics in Europe

Jayden Henry October 20, 2025

Eighty years ago, American soldiers vanquished the Axis powers, first in Europe, and at last in Asia. Now, in the year 2025, it appears the ideas of the Axis have been laundered and come home. Our political...

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What Tennessee’s Monument to the Unborn Says About Its Priorities

Eloise Beckwith, Senior Editor October 20, 2025

On Tennessee’s Capitol grounds, lawmakers are preparing to build a “Monument to Unborn Children.” It will stand alongside memorials to soldiers, suffragists, and Holocaust victims—tributes to lives...

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No Kings? Trump Jokes Otherwise

Skyler Barnes, Senior Editor October 19, 2025

It is hard to believe there was once a time when an ASMR deportation video, posted by the president himself and romanticizing the sound of shackling undocumented immigrants, would have shocked the nation....

Trump and Epstein’s Ageless, “Wonderful Secret” Haunts the White House

Trump and Epstein’s Ageless, “Wonderful Secret” Haunts the White House

Cole Patterson, Contributor October 19, 2025

That the current president enjoyed a long, close friendship with infamous socialite, financier, human trafficker, and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is no longer up for debate. In 2002, at the height of his...

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Standardization or Attempt to Silence? Tennessee’s Decision to Cut Nashville’s Metro Council in Half

Skyler Barnes, Senior Editor October 15, 2025

If democracy works best when everyone has a seat at the table, Tennessee’s lawmakers have decided there are too many chairs. This past summer, the Tennessee Court of Appeals reaffirmed a state law cutting...

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In Defense of the UN

Caleb Anderson, Senior Editor October 4, 2025

Last week, US President Donald Trump’s inflammatory address at the United Nations General Assembly made headlines. In his remarks, he lambasted the organization as full of “empty letters and empty...

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Nashville’s Vanishing Voters: The 3% Problem

Roscoe Heuer, Contributor October 1, 2025

On September 26, 2025, the Davidson County Election Commission released early voting data for the primary in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District special election. The number was shocking: only 4,098...

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Nepal’s 48-Hour Revolution: Gen Z Rewrites the Rules of Power

Aniruddh Marella and Karun Dhakal September 28, 2025

The last twelve months have been marked by political revolutions across the globe, from France, where the Prime Minister lost a vote of confidence, to Syria’s longstanding Assad regime falling in December...

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Judge Turns the Page on Library Shutdown Plan

Aniruddh Marella, Senior Editor September 25, 2025

On March 14th, 2025, President Trump enacted Executive Order (EO) 14238, calling for the “reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy the President deemed unnecessary.” In this order, the...

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Trump Makes Headlines, Macron Makes History (of Failure)

Dina Ishak, Senior Editor September 23, 2025

Over the past year, Emmanuel Macron has worked to project France as a leader in Europe and a formidable presence on the global stage. From his Southeast Asian tour, to his daily calls with the Ukrainian...

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