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Fighting to Fail: Low Performance on Advanced Placement Exams

Every so often, stories of promising young students who exhibit extraordinary academic talent sweep the Internet; when a Naperville North student became the first...

When the Best isn’t Good Enough: The Racial Representation Gap in Education

Unfortunately, even in education systems considered to be high performing, there is no guarantee of access to high-level schooling for everyone. According to the...

Youth in Service: A New Normal for America?

Despite the bad rap that the youth get, recent polling by the Institute of Politics at Harvard University reveals that the majority of young people today actually support the idea of a national service program for Americans under the age of 25. The IOP survey of 18-29 year old Americans found that a full 50 percent support voluntary national service, and seven percent support mandatory national service. Only 10 percent of respondents indicated that they would not support national service at all, while 33 percent were either unsure, or did not answer.

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.