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Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

OP-ED: Tennessee’s Abortion Bill Will Cripple Women’s Healthcare Statewide

OP-ED: Tennessee’s Abortion Bill Will Cripple Women’s Healthcare Statewide

Shreya Gupta May 17, 2022

Tennessee's newest abortion laws and the likely impending Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Mississippi will decimate health care availability for women and children in Tennessee—especially for people...

Institutionalized Racism: America's Eternal Pandemic

Institutionalized Racism: America’s Eternal Pandemic

Isabella Randle and Abhinav Krishnan April 30, 2020

Far from being the “great equalizer,” the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected African Americans, highlighting pervasive racial inequality in American society. Since the start of...

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Vanderbilt Poll Reveals Common Ground in Divided Tennessee

Grace Adcox December 17, 2019

Vanderbilt Poll reveals common ground on top issues for Tennesseans across partisan lines, including access to healthcare and economic insecurity. According to the Vanderbilt Poll, a statewide poll...

Access to Pharmaceuticals in an Age of Innovation: Dr. Stacie Dusetzina Discusses the Politics Behind Drugs

Access to Pharmaceuticals in an Age of Innovation: Dr. Stacie Dusetzina Discusses the Politics Behind Drugs

Tony Owusu October 23, 2019

On October 10, Vanderbilt’s chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) hosted its first event of the year called “Access to Pharmaceutics in an Age of Innovation” featuring Dr....

Flulapalooza! and the Politics of Vaccination

Flulapalooza! and the Politics of Vaccination

Gavin Yuan September 26, 2019

Beginning in 2010, one day at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is set aside every fall to conduct a mass vaccination event now known as Flulapalooza. The event, which was held from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m....

What is Single Payer? An Explainer

What is Single Payer? An Explainer

Aiyappa Bollera October 24, 2018

Thanks to fierce backing by well-known progressives like Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, debates over single-payer have dominated the American...

Healthcare In Animalia

Healthcare In Animalia

Avi Mediratta August 7, 2017

Far away, in a land called Animalia, the animals prepare for the winter. It will be one of the coldest winters in recorded history, so it is imperative that the animals look out for each other so that...

The Future of Left Wing Populism

The Future of Left Wing Populism

Cloe Anderson June 7, 2017

No one can reminisce on the most recent Democratic presidential primary race without recalling Bernie Sanders’ repeated cries about the “millionaires and billionaires” who hold all the power and...

Political Promises

Poulumi Banerjee December 26, 2013

America’s Constitution enshrines the principle of democracy that was brilliantly described by Abraham Lincoln as “government by the people, of the people and for the people”. As part of the constitutional...

America's Manufactured Obesity Crisis

America’s Manufactured Obesity Crisis

Michael Zoorob January 15, 2013

Earlier this month, Katherine Flegal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finding that the one third of Americans who...

Healthcare is an American Right

Healthcare is an American Right

Michael Zoorob December 1, 2012

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson articulated the American ethos that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable rights. The question of how best to protect these rights...

Your Regular Shot of Common Sense: Get Vaccinated

Your Regular Shot of Common Sense: Get Vaccinated

Michael Zoorob October 8, 2012

Remember this? "She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. There is no second chance for these little girls if there...

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