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Challenging Rape Culture from the White House: A Lasting Legacy?

After years of working to build infrastructure to prevent campus sexual assault and alter campus cultures, the White House announced in July a further measure: President Obama, Vice President Biden, their wives, and cabinets will no longer visit schools that fail to make adequate progress toward eliminating sexual assault. The Obama administration placed much emphasis on combating campus sexual assault, and this latest policy is another component of that progressive legacy. But whether this legacy continues depends largely on who is elected the next commander-in-chief.

How Scalia’s Death Affects the State of Affirmative Action

With the unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, marking only the third time in recent memory an active justice has died, a firestorm of controversy...

In the Business of Politics

An unmistakable intersection between business and politics exists in the United States. Beyond the conspicuous crossover found in interest groups, lobbyist organizations, and corporate...

Recrafting the Electoral College

How reforming the Electoral College can strengthen American democracy.

An Unusual Burden: the Supreme Court’s New Death Penalty Requirements

How the Supreme Court's decision in Glossip v. Gross disadvantages challenges to the death penalty.

Analyzing our Apathy

Why doesn't the Millennial generation want to vote?

HPRgument: The Third Republican Debate

HPR writers analyze the night's happenings, from the strained relationship between moderators and candidates to the policies they discussed.

Recreating the Finnish Miracle

What we can learn from Finland about education (and what we can’t).

A Phrase in Flux: The History of Political Correctness

History proves that political correctness is not easily defined. In fact modern debates over PC are shaped by definitions of the past.

The Pope Comes to Washington

Partisan interpretations of the Pope's rhetoric ignore his true message: reconciliation.