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.

Foreign Fulcrum, Ethnic Conundrum

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…

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Care About the Economy? Vote Democrat.

  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…

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An Opening for the Center-Left in Israel

  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…

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COVID Isn’t Over (and It May Never Be)

  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…

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The Systemic Failures of Uvalde

  “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…

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