By Caitlin Rueden a moment to remember the last time you voted. Do you remember having to drive 150 miles to the nearest open polling station? Do you remember — after all of that driving — not being able to read the…
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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 Sandy Davis the end of the Summer 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, questions have been raised concerning the political and economic welfare of the host country. In the aftermath of holding not one, but two major international sporting events…
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By Megan Kriss On August 18 of this year, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced that the U.S. Department of Justice will begin to reduce its reliance on the use of private prisons, with the goal of eventually ending their presence in…
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By Grant Mercer Today’s Zika outbreak is not the first time mosquitos have caused an international panic. In 1841, the British ship HMS Eclair docked in Sierra Leone to replenish their dwindling supplies. After filling their holds, they began steaming back toward…
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There once was a story about a man who could turn invisible. I thought it was only a story… until it happened to me. Ok, so here’s how it works: there’s this stuff called Quicksilver that can bend light. Some scientist made…
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By Ariel Pinsky On August 26, Arutz Sheva (Israeli National News) reported that three of the last remaining Jewish families in war-torn Syria have been evacuated to Louisville, Kentucky, after posing as Christian Arabs to gain entrance into Sweden. A Louisville synagogue,…
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By Alex Boylston “Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order…
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By Rob Oldham Freedom of speech protects the marketplace of ideas, which is the notion that all speech potentially has value and that free people should decide what is acceptable and what is not. For the marketplace of ideas to thrive, the…
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By Kalvis Golde This article originally appeared in the Spring 2016 edition of GPR Magazine. voters have a chance to make an enormous impact when they vote in November 2016, and it has nothing to do with choosing our next president. There…
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By Priyanka Ghosh This article originally appeared in the Spring 2016 edition of the GPR magazine. first sign of the Zika virus in the Americas appeared last May in Brazil, but it wasn’t until August of 2015 that a team of doctors…
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By Rob Oldham ho exactly is in charge of the Republican Party? Not John Boehner. The Speaker of the House announced his resignation after the House Freedom Caucus, a group of about 40 hardline conservatives, threatened to overthrow him for advancing a…
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By Rob Oldham ohhnnn Belll Edwudds.” A name so sweet and southern that you’d have thought he was a Republican. John Bel Edwards, the newly-elected governor of Louisiana, is defying all expectations for Democratic politics below the Mason-Dixon. He is a white social…
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