The Erosion of Political Parties

Number of words: 2,266 In 1796, President George Washington lambasted political parties for allowing “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men” to “subvert the power of the people”. His indictment seems brutally timely today, just a few months after 147 Republican US congress members publicly challenged results of the most recent US presidential election. But even long before then, … Read more

Marketing Luxury to Diverse Audiences

Number of words: 295 Owing to Sloan’s reception for candidness, a young Cadillac engi­neer named Nicholas Dreystadt realized that he could ask for a hear­ing with the board. His topic: how to make Cadillac profitable in 18 months, and he requested 10 minutes of the board’s time. At Sloan’s GM, the young engineer received a … Read more

The Dilemma of Vaccine Patents in a Pandemic Era

Number of words: 1,112 AFTER WEEKS OF immense pressure, the Biden administration came out in support of waiving intellectual property rights to coronavirus vaccines. Shortly after the Biden announcement earlier this month, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also reversed course and endorsed the patent waiver. But Bill Gates himself, subject to revived scrutiny around sexual misconduct and perhaps the most powerful … Read more

The Intersection of Land and Identity in Palestine

Number of words: 4,721 Despite how it is sometimes represented, the Israeli occupation of Palestine is not the result of some ancient and illogical sectarian quarrel. It instead emerged in concert with international methods of developing and analyzing land, as many Palestinian scholars, and those working with them, have shown. Prior to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank … Read more

The Mystery of Stanhopea Orchids

Number of words: 1,623 Suspended beneath a thick canopy of trees, the sloth inches along with slow strides . Painfully slow. Intentionally slow. Crawling high up among the branches, traipsing along a 100-foot steel cable, the little creature is like a lethargic acrobat. But its goal is not to delight or to put on a show; in … Read more

GMG’s Aluminium-ion Battery

Number of words: 674 The Graphene Manufacturing Group which is based in Brisbane, Australia has come up with a massive breakthrough that has the potential to shake up the electric car market, and generally increase the use of renewable sources of energy. GMG has been developing an Aluminium-ion battery that can provide up to three … Read more