By: Ian Davis On Jan. 15, the Georgia State Senate passed Resolution 739. While the residents of Georgia may expect Senate resolutions to address pressing state-related issues, Resolution 739 attends to no such thing. Rather than focusing on domestic imperatives, the Georgia…
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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: Michael Land Right-to-live advocates and right-to-die activists have traditionally been political enemies. While organizations such as the Death with Dignity National Center lobby to craft laws enabling patients to end their own lives, the movement to legalize euthanasia and physician-assisted dying…
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By: Patrick Wheat For many sitting members of the House of Representatives, the term “immigration reform” often evokes a feeling of distaste. Whether this sentiment is evident in the bitter curse word muttered by a Republican at the idea of offering amnesty…
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By: Victoria Barker How did America, the alleged home of the “American Dream” become the poster child of income inequality? A quick Google search of the term “income inequality” returns over 160,000,000 results in less than a quarter of a second. Rather…
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By: Nick Eberhart In times of economic difficulties, environmental sustainability often takes a back seat to economic growth. The recent global economic recession diminished the economic capacity of developed nations. This drop in economic power led to political shifts, but one of…
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By: Matthew Oldham On March 20, 2003, nearly 250,000 American troops entered into the vast unknown. U.S. Special Forces, along with troops from 40 other governments and almost 70,000 Kurdish soldiers propelled themselves into the heart of the Middle East—Iraq. Operation Iraqi…
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By: Michael Ingram It is Jan. 23, 2014, 3 a.m. EST. The droning cacophony of police bullhorns breaks the early morning stillness in the frost-covered Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Protesters pace aimlessly between makeshift barriers constructed from the requisitioned flotsam of the…
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By: Shalin Jyotishi As administrators of the state’s flagship university, University of Georgia officials march to the drum of a wide array of constituencies. University leaders have to answer to an array of parties ranging from faculty and students here in Athens,…
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By: Max Wallace Welcome to Georgia. We love Jesus, freedom and firearms, and anyone who possesses the gall to challenge a member of this sacred trinity is likely to be subjected to some choice terms, by far the most offensive of which…
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By: Patrick Wheat At the close of 2013, the turmoil in the Middle East became more intense with a strong push for territory in Iraq by the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). ISIS successfully captured two cities…
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By: Alex Edquist Georgia education funding might have its problems (as GPR’s Darrian Stacy described last week), but at least our state can say a court has never ruled its spending levels unconstitutionally low. Kansas, on the other hand, can. Kansas, like…
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By: Garrett Herrin In a graphic posted to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) Twitter account on the day of a historic vote on filibuster reform, the senator writes that, “In the history of the United States, there have been 168…
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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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