Matthew Inui
- Aug 6
Democrats Announce Economic Deal Investing in Energy and Health Care
On July 18, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that he and moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin had compromised on a new...
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Matthew Inui
- Aug 6
- 4 min
Democrats Announce Economic Deal Investing in Energy and Health Care
On July 18, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that he and moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin had compromised on a new...
Matthew Inui
- Jul 13
- 3 min
Department of Labor Reports Highest Inflationary Increase in 40 Years
In their May report, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of the relative amount...
Dhruti Pattabhi
- Apr 5
- 2 min
The Omicron Variant: An Economic Perspective
As the Omicron wave recedes, medical and news reports tell of the extreme stress and limits of the U.S. medical infrastructure. However...
Matthew Inui
- Mar 9
- 4 min
The West Responds to the Invasion of Ukraine
Tensions first began building two days before the invasion when Putin declared the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Ukraine independent...
Hayleigh Evans
- Sep 16, 2021
- 5 min
Paving the Way for the Future: The New Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
President Biden has implemented a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill which, according to a statement from the White House, aims to...
Mahsa Forghani
- Aug 8, 2021
- 3 min
Updates on Biden's Economic Policy
In the aftermath of economic recession, the White House must work efficiently to achieve recovery ― the aim of much of President Biden’...
Audrey Kim
- Mar 20, 2021
- 6 min
The Biden Administration: COVID and the Economy Updates
It is difficult not to acknowledge the similarities between the first 100 days in office of recently inaugurated President Joe Biden and...
Audrey Kim
- Oct 24, 2020
- 4 min
Tariffs, TikTok, and COVID-19: U.S.–China Relations
China and the United States — the world’s greatest economic superpowers — have experienced considerable fallout over the past few years.
Ashley Kim
- Mar 31, 2020
- 4 min
COVID-19 in the United States
President Trump answers questions concerning COVID-19 at a White House press conference on February 29, 2020. (D. Myles Cullen/White...
Ashley Kim
- Mar 4, 2020
- 3 min
Brexit: Britain’s Long-Awaited Exit from the European Union
After almost a year of conflict, negotiation, and failure, Britain formally separated from the European Union on January 31. Britain’s...
Krischan Jung
- Mar 10, 2019
- 2 min
Jussie Smollett Incident Timeline
Victim or criminal? Fox’s Empire actor, Jussie Smollett, was recently charged for filing a fake hate crime as a police report. The...
Krischan Jung
- Feb 3, 2019
- 2 min
California Water Tax
The California water crisis has been a huge issue for families concerned over the amount and safety of the drinking water they are...
Lindsey Kim
- Jan 29, 2019
- 4 min
LAUSD Teacher Strike
📷 Los Angeles Unified School District is the largest school district in all of California, and the second largest in the entire United...
Krischan Jung
- Jan 8, 2019
- 3 min
Banning E-Cig Flavors
📷 The use of E-cigarettes is becoming very popular among teenagers. A majority of these adolescents start smoking actual cigarettes...
Daibik Chakraborty
- Jan 7, 2019
- 2 min
Supreme Court Set to Rule About Bans on Profane Trademarks
The Lanham Act governed by The United States Patent and Trademark Office sets a precedent on what kind of terminologies can be used when...
Daibik Chakraborty
- Aug 17, 2018
- 2 min
American-Chinese Tariff Impact on American Farmers
📷 After President Trump’s ultimatum of tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum, the Chinese government responded by placing tariffs on $2...
Krischan Jung
- Aug 16, 2018
- 3 min
Trump Administration's Tariffs on Turkey 2018
(Edited by Daibik Chakraborty) On July 15, 2016, a failed coup d’etat occurred in Turkey against the government of President Recep Tayyip...
Krischan Jung
- Jun 7, 2018
- 3 min
Trump Administration's Steel and Aluminum Tariffs
📷 (Written in conjunction with Alicea Hernandez) In the United States presidential elections of 2016, candidate Donald Trump criticized...