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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

OP ED: The Texas War of 2021: The War Against Women

OP ED: The Texas War of 2021: The War Against Women

Pipa Powers, Contributor November 17, 2021

At many points in history, women have been punished for simply existing as women, stripped of the ability to make decisions in regard to their own bodies. Texas Senate Bill 8 is simply the next mechanism...

OP-ED: The West Should Take Notes from China's Recent Tech Regulation Frenzy

OP-ED: The West Should Take Notes from China’s Recent Tech Regulation Frenzy

Raj Chopra, Contributor October 20, 2021

The Chinese tech sector's decade of unfettered, explosive growth is being threatened by a barrage of regulatory guidelines published by the Chinese Cyberspace Administration. These guidelines target the...

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OP-ED: Exclusion of Transgender Athletes is Neither Scientific nor Fair

Benjamin Newcomb, Contributor May 7, 2021

The recently published Op-Ed titled "Joe Biden's Transgender Policy Creates an Unfair Playing Field" is poorly researched, needlessly sensationalist, and morally intolerable. In other words it is a poor...

The debate surrounding Defund the Police is just one example of many where politicians lie about their opponents for their own political gain at the expense of the health of our political system (Source: https://bit.ly/3e6Qo3T).

Op-Ed: A Case for Being Pedantic

Liam Thompson, Contributor May 4, 2021

Socialism: it’s when the government does stuff. This common meme phrase is often used to highlight how readily/easily people accuse things of being socialist when they do not like those things. Perhaps...

Trump and Erdogan, Washington Times, July 2018

A Student’s Perspective on American-Turkish Relations

Rob DeSena, Contributor January 9, 2020

For years, members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) have pandered to the anti-Americanism espoused by its nationalistic base. Erdogan has profited politically...

Op-Ed: The Global War of Ideas is Back

Op-Ed: The Global War of Ideas is Back

Ben Noon, Contributor January 5, 2020

In October, the General Manager of the Houston Rockets basketball team tweeted his support of the protests in Hong Kong. In response, the Chinese government banned the team from China indefinitely. The...

Vanderbilt Students Campaigning: A Closer Look at Politics Outside the Bubble

Vanderbilt Students Campaigning: A Closer Look at Politics Outside the Bubble

Katie Ward November 5, 2018

This past Friday, I spent a chilly afternoon knocking on doors in a Southeast Nashville neighborhood. With a clipboard in one arm, and a stack of pamphlets in the other, I practiced my speech on the sidewalk....

OPINION: Steering Clear of Politics After A Massacre Isn't Polite — It's Irresponsible

OPINION: Steering Clear of Politics After A Massacre Isn’t Polite — It’s Irresponsible

Naveen Krishnan October 2, 2017

The past few years in country have been irreversibly marked by a spate of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings. As each mass shooting devastates the nation with its enormous losses, a period of national...

OPINION: Football’s Woman Problem and How Vanderbilt is Contributing to it

OPINION: Football’s Woman Problem and How Vanderbilt is Contributing to it

Lindsay Williams September 28, 2017

My dad is an avid sports fan. If I make it to one game in an entire semester, it’s a miracle, but I can always expect score updates from him to keep me in the loop. Even from afar, I always get really...

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