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.
On May 7th of this year, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was forced to resign amidst multiple allegations of physical assault against women.…
On October 7, 2018, Brazil held its presidential elections in which 13 candidates fought to win 50 +1 percent of the total votes; however, not…
Research into global health has mostly been thought of, up until now, as a relatively bipartisan issue. Research into the Human Genome has advanced, partially…
Today, the United States of America is officially holding its 2018 Midterm Elections. While these races have been the focus of a great deal of…
Today, on election day, several races with national implications are still too close to call. One of those races is in the state of Missouri,…
Singapore has been under an unprecedented amount of limelight recently for a number of reasons. The first, which really thrust the tiny country into the arms…
Nowadays, the political climate only seems to worsen and polarize each day. Bitter, villainizing rhetoric; death threats; and politically-motivated violence is not uncommon.
Since his tumultuous presidential campaign, Donald Trump has utilized rhetoric that has polarized the American public to a largely unprecedented extent. He ran his presidential…
George Soros is often known as the man who broke the Bank of England, but he means different things to different people. The Chair of…
During his 2016 presidential election campaign, Donald Trump referred to China as an “economic enemy” and stated that the Chinese “have taken advantage of us…