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Epistemic Humility as a Presidential Virtue

By Mark Satta* There are a lot of traits worth wanting in a political leader—relevant experience, good public speaking skills, strong critical thinking skills, a charming personality, empathy, tact, wisdom, diligence, willingness to serve those whom one leads, etc. The current President of the United States seems to lack an unsettling number of these traits, but North Korea’s recent attempt to use the potential North Korea-United States summit as leverage against United States’ foreign …

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The Legal Landscape of Graduate Student Assistant Unionization in the Trump Era

By Jared Odessky* In August 2016, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or “the Board”) held that graduate student assistants at Columbia University were statutory employees under Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (“the Act”) with the legally enforceable right to unionize. The ruling extended to private colleges and universities generally and spurred a wave of organizing on campuses across the country. When President Trump took office, analysts predicted that his new …

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Politically Futile and Progressively Backward: Blocking Broadcom’s bid for Qualcomm

By Reveena Kumari Sethia* Antitrust laws have evolved across the globe to ensure that consumer welfare and effective competition remain the priority while balancing the promotion of liberalism and uninterrupted world trade. The intervention of executive action where antitrust and economic policies could’ve brought an acceptable balance may be seen as a step backward in the larger move towards global liberalization and free markets. A recent example of this can be seen in President Trump’s …

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The Risks of a Legislative Trend in Response to #MeToo

By Alamea Deedee Bitran* Since the disturbing details of the Harvey Weinstein scandal were released, an influx of harassment allegations have been brought to light. Yet arguably the parameters of the law remain unsuitable to address the root of the problem because of contractual barriers to victims litigating their claims in the public eye.  While harassment continues to permeate the workforce, carefully crafted nondisclosure and arbitration agreements have successfully kept many victims from …

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Assisting Personal Responsibility: Using Nudges to Reduce Sugar Consumption

By Steven J. Gonzalez[1] I. Introduction The prevalence of obesity and its related chronic illnesses has been increasing for decades and takes a heavy toll not only on individual households, but also on public health institutions. The over-consumption of sugar, especially through Sugar Sweetened Beverages (SSBs), is an important contributor to this epidemic. Curtailing Americans’ intake of sugar cannot be done effectively by only encouraging "personal responsibility," because the food …

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Let’s Work to End Homelessness, not Disguise It

By Nino Monea* If you take a stroll through Cambridge, Massachusetts, you probably wouldn’t pay much attention to the park benches. But if you did, might notice handrails jutting out in the middle of many of the benches. Though seemingly benign, this feature means that a person trying to stretch out cannot sleep on the bench. Not every bench in Cambridge is like that, and perhaps the design has no ill-intent. But many communities created bench designs that prevent a homeless person …

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