A Cheese by Any Other Name: The Impact of Geographical Indications on International Agricultural Trade

By Dillon Lightfoot With United States (U.S.) agricultural exports reaching all-time highs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently reported $196 billion in agricultural exports for the fiscal year 2022, Geographical Indications (GIs) have become a major sticking… Read More

Russia’s Future Is Far More France Than China

And It’s Time The Kremlin Started Acting Like It By Will Baumgardner Russia is no longer the world superpower that it was as a part of the Soviet Union. In a world of emerging bipolarity, the largest geographic… Read More

Systems of Government Near and Far

By Russell Filip Humanity continues to evolve – if not biologically, then socially. After abandoning their primitive hunter-gatherer roots, humanity has constantly been forming newer and more innovative forms of government. From god-kings to czars and presidents, humanity… Read More

A Federalist Environment

How Federal Preemption Waivers Help States Push Forward Environmental Goals By Megan Geuss Energy efficiency is a meaningful and often-overlooked method for chipping away at carbon emissions. With a federal government currently hostile to reducing carbon emissions, some… Read More

Democracy Threatened: Judicial Independence Under Attack in Poland

Democracy Threatened: Judicial Independence Under Attack in Poland “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced… Read More