By: Gautam Narula Every day, Internet users generate millions of gigabytes of data. Every time someone clicks a link, visits a website, uses an app, or makes a phone call, data is created. These actions are tracked, recorded, and added to increasingly…
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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: Patrick Wheat In 2009, the DREAM Act, formally the Development, Relief, and Education of Alien Minors, was reintroduced in Congress by members of both parties. This legislation fast became a hot button issue, each side using it as political ammunition to…
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By: Andrew Roberts With fewer car and in-home radios in use, it is no surprise that programming, music, and news have jumped off the sinking ship that is traditional radio onto the safer shores of HD radio, social media, iTunes, and the Internet.…
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Can the US and China Unite to Meet a North Korean Nuclear Threat? By: Max Wallace As Kim Jong-un persists in his threats to renew armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula, an exacerbated international community finds itself increasingly hard-pressed to find a…
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By: Cecilia Moore A debate has arisen over whether the world, for the first time in over 10,000 years, has entered a new geological era. This purported new epoch, termed the Anthropocene, or the “age of man,” would dramatically alter the way…
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By: Charlie Spalding The race to replace the retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss is beginning to take shape, particularly on the Republican side. Two candidates have already declared their intention to run in the Republican primary, precipitating a domino effect across the state’s…
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By: Jacqueline Van De Velde The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugee’s most recent statistics on the Syrian refugee response reported 1,230,822 registered refugees in the region. Another 970,318 people are waiting to be registered. Together that is 2,210,140 registered refugees and asylum-seekers,…
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By: Jackson Garner Congress looks a little different these days. With the swearing in of the 113th Congress in January, 20 women entered the Senate chambers alongside their 80 male colleagues. While females make up 50 percent of the total population in…
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By: Yuliya Bila The climate change debate raging in the United States primarily concerns the question of human agency. Most Americans have accepted the alarming assertion that the Earth’s temperature is rising at an unprecedented rate, but not all elements of the population…
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By: Robert Jones Though discussion about AIDS has remained relatively dormant in mainstream culture, two monumental cultural events have triggered a flurry of new discussion: the release of an incredible and eye opening documentary, and the recent report that a baby born…
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By: Emily Fountain On March 29, The Daily Princetonian, the independent student-run newspaper of Princeton University, published a letter in the opinion section from Susan Patton, President of the Princeton Class of 1977. In said letter, Ms. Patton counters the recent trend…
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By: Tia Ayele As one of the most controversial issues in the discourse of public health and human rights, female genital mutilation (FGM) persists in much of the developing world. Practiced in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, it is…
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