By Daisy Ni (PO ’21) China has gone through momentous changes in the past few decades, growing to become the second largest economy in the world. This progress, however, has been accompanied by political corruption, a fact acknowledged by President Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). During his past term, Xi made anti-corruption a core priority and had...
By Daisy Ni (PO ’21) For the past few years under the Affordable Care Act, employers were required to provide birth control coverage in the health insurance plans they offered employees. Last Friday, however, the Trump administration rescinded that regulation as announced by the Department of Health and Human Services; starting immediately, employers can now deny contraceptive care coverage on...
By Daisy Ni (PO ’21) Earlier this October, Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 54 and effectively turned California into a “sanctuary state.” A reaction to President Trump’s hardline immigration rhetoric and policies, the bill limits state and local law enforcement communication with federal immigration authorities and would prevent officers from questioning and holding people on immigration...
By Daisy Ni (PO ’21) Relations between the United States and Cuba have been stony since the Cold War, with the Cuban Missile Crisis standing as one of the notorious examples of nuclear escalation. The past decade especially has contained dramatic turning points in the diplomacy between the two countries, a diplomacy that is slowly breaking down due to moves from the Trump administration. To...
By Daisy Ni (PO ’21) Following President Trump’s vow in August to loosen restrictions on counter-terrorism measures, the White House has been preparing to dismantle Obama-era limits on drone strikes and commando raids outside conventional battlefields. Specifically, national security advisers have proposed to expand kill missions by the military and the CIA from what is currently limited to...
