By Alex Boylston 2016 was coming to a close, media outlets around the globe displayed images of hundreds of thousands of protestors converging on downtown Seoul, the capital of South Korea. They took to the streets in droves to demand that President…
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The Fried Chicken Frenzy: The Chicken Sandwich Wars and the Fast Food Industry
By: Anu Fawehinmi In 2019, with the intent of usurping Chick-fil-A from their fried chicken throne, Popeyes released their Crispy Chicken Sandwich. This bold declaration of war began the battle for market share turned marketing scheme affectionately known as the Chicken Sandwich Wars of the late 2010s. The battle even made its way to social media, with Chick-fil-A reacting to Popeyes’ recent menu addition and Popeyes responding in jest shortly afterward. Popeyes’ introduction of the Crispy Chicken Sandwich and their marketing campaign that followed revitalized the restaurant chain far beyond the expectations of the company, reestablishing it as a true…
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By Sebastian Puerta France has existed as the land separating channel and sea for millennia under various names: Gaul, Francia, France, and colloquially as “L’Hexagone” in reference to the country’s geographical shape, the French Fifth Republic itself is only 58 years old. The…
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By Alex Soderstrom the past three presidential elections have been any indication, the Democratic Party is the party of the young. Barack Obama buried his opponents in the competition for the under-30 vote in both 2008 and 2012, and Hillary Clinton captured…
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By Alex Boylston a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in early March, much of the media’s attention was focused on President Donald Trump’s responses related to the location of the U.S. embassy in Israel. Commentators speculated as to how his…
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By Seamus Murrock all the noise and headline-sensationalizing that has hijacked the economic news media since the 2016 election cycle, analysts at Goldman Sachs, America’s oldest investment bank, continue to offer insights that are equally refreshing as they are sobering. Last…
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By Torus Lu one way or another, many of the statistics used to track American economic activity can be misrepresented to support the president’s policy goals. The current White House has embraced that fact wholeheartedly. Here’s a list: Trade Deficits The Wall…
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By Loran Posey, Jr. Feb. 25, former Labor Secretary Tom Perez defeated progressive Rep. Keith Ellison in a 235-230 vote to become the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Perez was considered the establishment candidate and benefitted from the support of…
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By Paul Oshinski 13, 2015: As the emerald waters off the coast of Kos, a small Greek Dodecanese Island, glimmered in the iridescent sunshine, a dirtied dinghy drifted to the sandy shore, holding in it dozens of refugees, most originating from Syria.…
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By Alex Vanden Heuvel @TheVandenHeuvel The author would like to thank the Terry College Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, Dr. Marisa Pagnattaro, and the Georgia Ports Authority for information related to this article. Port of Savannah is not the sort…
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By Samuel Driggers June 24th of last year, “BRITISH STUN WORLD” was written across the top of the New York Times. The Wall Street Journal, for once, ran a quite similar headline: “UK Exit Delivers Shock”. “Brexit,” as the UK’s exit from the…
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By Uma Kasibhatla nominated for Best Picture and three other awards in the 89th Academy Awards, “Hell or High Water” is one of those movies that somehow skated under everyone’s radar. The movie was only released in a limited amount of theaters…
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By Shuchi Goyal Katherine Johnson, one of the three leads of “Hidden Figures,” joins NASA’s Space Task Group as a human computer in 1962, she is the lone black woman in a room of white men. She receives a terse welcome and…
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