By Alexander Casendino Breakthroughs typically arise from strange beginnings. In his early years as a student at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg had no clue that he would forever change the world upon launching the “hot or not” website, FaceMash. The same concepts and software behind Zuckerberg’s sophomoric project would later be applied to the social media […]
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Damage Control: Continuous Resolutions and Continuous Setbacks for National Security
By Alexander Casendino “It is nevertheless remarkable that the world’s pre-eminent power so frequently fails to pay for its government on time.” -The Economist If any one political event could capture the corrosive state of contemporary United States politics, it is the shutdown. In just the first two months of 2018, the U.S. government has […]
A Republican Boycott: the Silver Bullet for a Trumpist America?
In their recent Atlantic article, veteran editors and staunch independents Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes argue for a non-negotiable, straight ticket vote for the Democratic Party in an effort to reset the GOP from what they perceive to be the “Trumpism virus”; Trumpism defined as the right-leaning, norm-breaking, anti-establishment, nationalist movement that has emerged. Their […]