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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

Opinion: The Gaping Chasm: Polarization in Media

Opinion: The Gaping Chasm: Polarization in Media

Aarya Morgaonkar, Contributor February 2, 2025

Most political candidates today will decry certain forms of media. For Republicans, sites such as CNN and MSNBC are widely considered to be liberal media, whereas the opposite moniker applies to Fox News...

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Opinion: Tariff Turmoil or Triumph: An Analysis of Trump’s Economic Warpath on North America

Aniruddh Marella, Senior Editor February 1, 2025

The weeks leading up to Donald Trump's inauguration marked the return of the usual indications of a Trump presidency: controversial cabinet selections, executive order speculation, claims of inaugurating...

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Opinion: A Rare Commodity These Days—Political Ambition Returns to the White House with Donald Trump

Noah Jenkins, Podcast Director January 22, 2025

In recent decades, the changing of the guard at the White House, either from Democrat to Republican or vice-versa, has seldom meant any real, substantive changes for America, despite all the hope and talk...

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Opinion: What’s In a Name—Trump and Neocolonialism

Caleb Anderson, Contributor January 22, 2025

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell just as sweet.” Here, Shakespeare suggests that names are arbitrary. History tells a different story. Renaming places...

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Opinion: Global Warming Caused The L.A. Fires — Why Won’t the Media Say It?

Alex Mormorunni, Deputy Editor in Chief January 16, 2025

Don Shores, 70, and his wife Cathy, 65, hold to each other, their eyes stinging with embers and, lacking the strength to run, burn to death in their Paradise, California home. It was 2018, and the longest...

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2024: The Year of Global Discontentment

Matthew Ye, Contributor January 13, 2025

As the dust falls on the 2024 presidential election in the United States, the Democratic Party continues to lick its wounds. Every day, new post mortems arise, providing potential explanations for the...

Opinion: Power, Privilege, and the Pardon: Presidential Pardon or Abuse of Power?

Opinion: Power, Privilege, and the Pardon: Presidential Pardon or Abuse of Power?

Akram Siddique, Contributer December 17, 2024

On December 1, 2024, President Joe Biden granted a full and unconditional pardon to his son, Hunter Biden, for all federal offenses committed or potentially committed over a decade, from 2014 to 2024....

Vanderbilt Political Review Podcast Ep.3 – J Andrés Gannon

Alícia Isasi, Managing Director December 5, 2024

On Thursday, November 14, 2024, Professor J Andrés Gannon appeared on the Vanderbilt Political Review Podcast to discuss the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and the implications of a Trump presidency...

The Complicated History Between Donald Trump and Marco Rubio

The Complicated History Between Donald Trump and Marco Rubio

Ella Huang, Contributor December 5, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Marco Rubio for Secretary of State marks the culmination of a complex and evolving relationship between the two Republican figures—one that has oscillated...

Opinion: The Invisible Enemy: How Social Media is Tearing Our Nation Apart

Opinion: The Invisible Enemy: How Social Media is Tearing Our Nation Apart

Kendall Givens, Contributor November 18, 2024

The morning after the election, little sun shined down on campus. For many of Vanderbilt’s Democrats, the weather reflected the solemn mood arising from a harsh reality that America must face another...

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Opinion: A Vanderbilt Republican’s Opinion on the Election

Frederik Schutz, Contributor November 17, 2024

It’s morning again in America. That’s the sentiment shared by me and Republicans on campus, as well as across the country, following the Republican Party’s and Donald Trump’s decisive victory...

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Opinion: American Masculinity and Trump

Caleb Anderson, Contributor November 17, 2024

This year’s election results saw overwhelming changes in demographic voting trends. Trump made gains across racial demographics, driven mainly by Black and Latino men. Though Trump’s dominance over...

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