By: Emily Kopp Last week, I heard Spencer Frye recount a tale of being hunted by a Haitian shaman and listened as Gwen O’Looney slurred through the tale of how she narrowly missed contracting cholera in Turkey. Two weeks ago, a few…
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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: Ryan Prior This is the third in a four-part Alliance of Collegiate Editors (ACE) forum on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In the first installment of this forum, Hussein Elbakri, of the Columbia Political Review, analyzed the arguments for…
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By: Alexander Sileo Mitt Romney has just clinched the Republican nomination after a primary win in Texas. The result has been obvious for weeks, but now that it is official the general election can begin, and both sides are eager to start…
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By: Kelsey Thomas From the election of James M. Smith in 1872 until the failed re-election campaign of Roy Barnes in 2002, Georgia had a Democrat in the Governor’s Mansion (three mansions, in fact). Democrats controlled both houses of the General Assembly…
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By: Kaitlyn Walker Barack Obama is certainly not the first president to unite with Hollywood power-players (Kennedy, Clinton, and Reagan all utilized the power of the celebrity fundraiser). Nevertheless, the results of his collaborations with Tinseltown are rapidly reaching unprecedented proportions. In…
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By: Jacqueline Van de Velde After facing off against France’s Goliath, the now former president Nicholas Sarkozy, Francois Hollande was elected as president of France last week by a narrow margin. He steps into his position burdened with lofty expectations: to take…
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By: Jonathan Klein Just two weeks after the Egyptian government threatened to cut off access to the web, in mid-January millions of Internet users realized their worst fears: they couldn’t load sites that played pivotal roles in their lives. Across the world,…
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By: Megan White On the outermost surface, King David, Daniel LaRusso, and Norway do not appear to have much in common. One is a biblical ruler, another is a martial arts enthusiast, and another is a mid-sized Scandinavian nation. One is from…
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By: Emily Kopp “The times they are a changin’.” No, really. The U.S. federal executive branch continues to expand its jurisdiction, a ruthless dictator in the Middle East exerts a systematic daily bloodbath against his own people in a frenzied attempt to…
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By: Ronnie Kurtz “I love Fidel Castro.” By now, Miami Marlins’ manager Ozzie Guillen’s statements made in an interview with Time magazine have become a quote heard ‘round the world. And if you’ve been paying attention to the media firestorm that has…
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