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.

This week, Political Union will be debating whether or not “and is in our DNA” culture at Northwestern is good for students.

This week, Political Union will be debating whether the future of the Republican Party is Trumpism. Ultimately our understanding of this resolution hinges on our definition of the term “Trumpism,” and we thought that it would be good to include several sources in this weekly debate primer that engage with this concept before we get into the thick of the debate.

When issues such as government surveillance arise, it is revealed how ill-equipped the current state of our Constitution is to deal with the growing challenges of modernity.

This week, Political Union will be debating whether social media is corrosive to democracy.

This week, Political Union will be debating whether industrialization has been good for humanity.

This week, Political Union will be debating whether the United States ought to provide a Universal Basic Income ahead of Northwestern College Democrat’s visit from Andrew Yang.

This week, Political Union will be debating whether the United States should guarantee military support to Taiwan in case of war.

This week, Political Union will be debating whether journalism should prioritize objectivity over advocacy.

This week, in the place of our planned debate we will be holding a dialogue--not a debate--on everything that’s been on students’ minds recently, and we want to hear your criticisms of and suggestions for the university. This blog post won’t be the same kind of debate primer that you’ve seen each weekend; instead, we thought it would be most helpful to piece together a timeline of the major developments in the campus-wide conversation over Greek life and administrative response.

This week, Political Union will be debating whether the United States should let billionaires exist.

Since the Cambridge Analytica data scandal in 2016, people have been looking far more closely at the influence held by social media companies due to their ownership and usage of data. People across the political spectrum have been criticizing the immense power held by these companies to not only amplify certain voices but quell and dispose of dissenting views. Whether you agree with their right to do so, it is impossible to deny the immense power very few companies have over the public discourse of the entire planet.