Welcome to the Zeitgeist, the NYU Politics Society’s undergraduate opinion publication dedicated to providing a platform for students to learn about and engage with politics and current events.
After a long history of an unusually high level of ethnic homogeneity, South Korea now finds itself at the advent of an influx of foreigners, many of whom intend to…
The recent Vancouver mayoral election has led to a massive upheaval at city hall. Ken Sim of the ABC (A Better City) party resoundingly defeated the incumbent mayor Kennedy Stewart…
In less than a month, Americans will be heading to the polls to decide the composition of the 118th Congress. Current polling favors the Republicans to win control of…
Only three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and the annual awarding of the Nobel Prize. For more than 100 years, Nobel Prizes have been awarded to those…
During the repeated election cycles in Israel, an opportunity is emerging for the center-left to create a reliable majority without including former Prime Minister and Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu…
At NYU’s Bobst library, a large open space on the right side of the lobby dons red banners spelling out the phrase “This is Not a Drill.” My first thought…
On March 11th, 2021 President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) which included a major temporary expansion to the Child Tax Credit (CTC), a means-tested deduction on…
I am in my early twenties, I had a next-to-asymptomatic case of COVID-19, and I have moderate long COVID. For three months, I had post-exertional malaise and other neurological…
Marijuana. Weapons. Surveillance. Three loosely related words that, due to recent events in Russia, have been intertwined in a messy standoff between two global superpowers. Basketball player Brittney Griner was…
“It doesn’t matter. They’re not going to protect us.” This is how Zyon Martinez, a second grader and survivor of last May’s Robb Elementary School massacre, reacted to the…