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Youth vote, media comprehension impact Missouri Primary

Anna Xu • March 23, 2020

People young and old express their thoughts on the impacts of social media and other media platforms in education during election season.

Candidates for the Democratic nomination explained

Will Cover • March 10, 2020

Joseph Biden Jr. Joseph Biden Jr. is a former Vice President, a position he held from 2009 to 2017. Prior to being Vice President, Biden represented Delaware in the Senate from 1973 to 2009. In the Senate,...

Sanctions

Anna Xu • February 22, 2020

Sanctions can be administered to an entity by one state or many countries banding against it. In modern history, the U.S. as well as other powerful nations have used economic sanctions to influence foreign countries in specific ways.

Tariffs

Anna Xu • February 22, 2020

The purpose of taxing foreign products is to raise the competitiveness of domestic companies to try to boost the economy. Tariffs also raise revenue to the Department of Treasury.

NAFTA

Anna Xu • February 22, 2020

NAFTA stands for North American Free Trade Agreement. It is made up of the three largest countries of North America: U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Paris Agreement

Isaac Yontz • February 8, 2020

The Paris Agreement (Accord), or COP21, was created in Dec. 2015 to combat the effects of climate change. The agreement included articles that restricted the amount of carbon each country could emit. The treaty’s namesake is the town it was initially created in, Paris, France.

Renewable Energy

Isaac Yontz • February 8, 2020

As natural energy becomes more popular in the U.S., proponents of renewable energy argue that it is equivalent to nuclear and fossil fuel energy.

Nuclear Energy

Isaac Yontz • February 8, 2020

Nuclear energy is created from a process called fission, which splits uranium atoms. this process creates steam and by a turbine generator to create electricity. The main use for nuclear power is to supply power to heating, cooling and various other electrical uses.

Criminalization of Drugs

Sarah Ding • February 2, 2020

The federal government considers possession of illegal drugs as a criminal offense, and arrests people for misdemeanor paraphernalia ⁠— equipment that is used to produce, conceal, or consume drugs ⁠— or felony drug possession. Decriminalization isn’t the same as legalization, but it handles the possession of drugs as a public health problem rather than criminal activity.