This week, PU will host a discussion about performative activism, what to make of its varying consequences, and how it manifests itself on social media and among students.

Parker Stava and Felix Beilin go back and forth on the polarizing subject of trans youth participation in organized sports.

This week, Political Union will debate whether domestic surveillance is in the public interest.

The war in Ukraine is renewing a push for energy security in the Global North. But what does it mean for energy transition efforts in the Global South?

This week, Political Union will debate whether the US should choose its members of the House of Representatives through a lottery system.

This week, Political Union will debate whether the US should impose term limits on its members of Congress.

Zack Lori argues in this week’s essay that the era of traveling Olympic games has ended - it’s time to select permanent hosts.

This week, Political Union will debate whether the US should legalize voluntary active euthanasia.

Harry Xie examines in a guest essay how the media has mischaracterized the nature of the Supreme Court’s most controversial decisions throughout this term.

Parker Stava argues that China’s authoritarian behavior is on full display as the 2022 Beijing Olympics begin.

This week, Political Union will debate whether the United States should send troops to Ukraine in case of Russian invasion.

Guest writer Will Paschke makes the case against the “For the People Act,” which stalled in Congress earlier this year, and proposes alternative voting rights solutions.

A prison break in northeast Syria in late January led to a two-week battle for control of the detention facility, where tens of thousands of ISIL fighters and family members are held. But is the prison break a turning point in ISIL’s strategy, or a symptom of the regional government’s political predicament?

This week, Political Union will debate whether the first year of the Biden presidency has been successful.

Zack Lori makes the case against continued expansion of the European Union - because of tricky diplomacy, and the legislative circumstances that already make the EU remarkably inefficient.

This week, Political Union will debate whether American patriotism is good.

We’ve traditionally thought of China and Russia as our greatest geopolitical foes. But as the Earth warms, changes to agriculture and natural disaster patterns mean that climate change is the most formidable national security we’ve faced to date.

This week, Political Union debates whether the United States should cancel student debt.

For longer than most undergraduate students have been alive, Mexico has been a nation driven by conflict. The Mexican military first formalized their intervention in 2006 with the beginning of the Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México (the Mexican War on Drugs). Violence resulting from the drug trade and its associates has become more tangible in recent years. Since the intervention in 2006, 150,000 deaths have been attributed to organized crime in Mexico.

The attacks on the morning of September 11, 2001, forever changed the American outlook. Before the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the perception of the American homeland was that American soil is insulated from attacks. That sense of security was destroyed by mass civilian casualties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks spawning a new period of domestic and international policy. This renewed period of interventionist foreign policy in the Middle East would come to be known as the War on Terror.