This week, Political Union will be debating whether the United States should impose a No First Use policy for nuclear weapons.

On Wednesday, April 28th, President Biden gave his first speech to a joint session of Congress. Immediately following the President’s address, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) gave the official Republican response to the speech. Scott’s speech could be described as predictable, basic, or bland; he hit mainstream GOP talking points on school reopenings, immigration, and President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure bill.

Starting in late April, Colombians took to the streets to protest tax and health-care policies of President Iván Duque Márquez. The violent protests have seen at least 25 people killed and hundreds more injured, with police brutality fueling anti-government dissent across the country. The startling increase of intensity in the protests point to something larger underlying Colombia’s internal dissent: the unresolved 56-year civil war between guerilla groups and the government plays a major role in the current tensions that exist within the country.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was drafted in 1996, and has shaped the foreground of user-generated content on the internet---relevant to everything from tweets to sex-trafficking to Airbnb; Section 230 is the single most influential piece of legislation impacting Silicon Valley giants to date.

This week, Political Union will be debating whether Universities should not consider standardized test scores in their undergraduate admissions processes.

This week, Political Union will be debating whether the United States should boycott the 2022 Olympics hosted in Beijing, China. Here are some resources to prepare for the debate.

This week, Political Union will be debating whether the US should legalize all drugs.

This week, the New York Times found itself in considerable turmoil with regard to the firing of Donald McNeil, a veteran science writer whose usage of a racial slur two years ago outraged other Times staffers. We take a look at what this shift in reporter-editor relations (sounds boring, but I promise it isn’t!) means for the greater news media ecosystem.

This week, Myanmar’s military engineered what international observers agree is a coup. We break down what that means for democracy in Myanmar, the geopolitics of the region, and where the crisis might go in the future.

Control of the Senate will come down to a double runoff election on January 5 in Georgia, after Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock both pulled their Republican rivals below the 50% threshold for victory and forced a do-over in the November general. Warnock, in his race against incumbent Kelly Loeffler, finished seven points ahead of her, albeit within a field crowded with eight candidates receiving more than 1% of the vote. Republican David Perdue finished just under two points ahead of Ossoff, and was denied outright victory by far less than the number of votes received by Libertarian Shane Hazel.