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Over the past year, political sentiment has pushed states to regulate social media use for children in the United State. We analyze 300 bills introduced by US state legislatures in 2024. We find that while Democratic- and Republican-controlled legislatures both introduced legislation related to social media, Republican-controlled state legislatures were more likely to enact such regulation.
Queer inmates are disproportionately represented in prisons. In a 2011 survey, around 16% of transgender respondents and 47% of Black transgender respondents experienced incarceration, despite making up only 2.7% of the population nationally. In total, 124,000 of those incarcerated in US prisons & jails identify as LGBTQ and 6,000 identify as transgender.
Although the world is far from Skynet and robots rivaling the human mind, artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to reach new heights in 2024. With the normalization of photo processing, many companies have an eye on video production and entirely new applications. As companies like Apple join the fray, the AI industry is booming. Unsurprisingly, the rapid progress is cause for concern as the United States, India, Mexico, and other democracies prepare for their 2024 elections. Moreover, policy motions only add to the unpredictability of AI’s future. Eve...
Throughout history, the distribution of information has proven to be widespread and rapid. Though the spread of news comes with multiple benefits, along with it comes the dangerous side effects of propaganda and misinformation. Recently, a graphic1 circled social media comparing Israeli Prime Minis...
Urban Pulse | Northern Virginia's suburbs should be transformed into walkable, sustainable communities through developments like the Northfax Chain Bridge project, aiming to replace car-centric sprawl with vibrant, mixed-use neighborhoods....
As of 2024, over 150 South Korean elementary schools find themselves with zero new students, and as Korean reporters put it, “accelerating the path to national population extinction.”1 South Korea’s fertility rate has been decreasing steadily since 2015, going from 1.24 children per woman to a world...
On March 4, 2024, the United States Supreme Court reversed the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the primary election ballot.1 This may seem to mark the culmination of a case whose implications reverberate throughout the realm of the 2024 presidential electi...
To conclude its national anthem, as the United States proclaims itself as the “land of the free,” our nation’s sentiment of liberty is not merely one to be sung by an audience of citizens, but rather a doctrine defining America’s society. Democracy is the foundational block that has uplifted this co...
During the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, the United States went into a period of isolation.1 While they were occupied with their financial instabilities, the far-right political ideology of fascism propagated between 1919 and 1945. Critics blame the lack of response from the U.S. for...
From phones to food, capitalism has been the framework for our American society as a whole since its inception. As defined by Cambridge University Press, capitalism is “an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are controlled by private owners rather than by the stat...
