Organize and Energize: How Student Leaders Bolster Democratic Turnout
In advance of the 2026 midterms, The Gate spoke with student organizers in Virginia and Texas for their thoughts on strategies to promote Democratic youth turnout.
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What Paramount’s Warner Takeover Means for the Future of Streaming
Paramount’s win over Netflix in their bidding war for Warner Bros is a cautionary tale for media consolidation — and its effects on our politics.
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Tierra Walker Should Still Be Alive: Texas Turned Pregnancy Into a Human Rights Emergency
Texas law let Tierra Walker die. That’s not a policy failure — it’s a human rights emergency.
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Policies of Erasure: Anti-Trans Genocide Under the Trump Administration
Since coming into office a second time, President Donald Trump has been engaged in a sweeping project of discrimination and erasure, which limits the freedom of transgender people in America to exist as transgender.
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The Men Behind the Desk: Doug Mills on Photojournalism and the American Presidency
“They’re just as human as we are,” Mills said. “When you see it up close, it just sticks with you for the rest of your life.”
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A Tale of Two Cities: How Atlanta and Chicago Are Confronting Urban Decline
As Atlanta bets on neighborhood development and Chicago bets on its schools, two progressive mayors make opposite wagers with the same scarce public dollars. The rest of urban America watches.
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DOGE & The Downfall of Bureaucracy
An analysis of bureaucratic operations during the Trump Era, especially in the wake of DOGE-driven cuts.
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Want to Understand Trump’s Foreign Policy? Follow the Natural Resources.
From the intervention in Venezuela to calling for an American takeover of Greenland, obtaining access to natural resources abroad has been a recurring theme of the Trump administration’s foreign policy.
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When the Gun Turns Inward: On the Conditionality and Complicity of American Outrage
In analyzing what recent American mass protests are centered on and what led to their inception, we can begin to understand the psychology of American Liberal outrage and how it perpetuates the system of domination they seek to condemn.
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How Would Milton Friedman React to Section 338 (The Smoot-Hawley Act)?
For 95 years, Section 338 of the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 sat dormant in the federal code. It was written
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“The Name is Mamdani”: How Zohran Mamdani Won the New York City Mayoral Election Through Social Media
Zohran Mamdani revolutionized digital campaigning in a way that yielded him unprecedented youth turnout and the largest number of votes won in an NYC mayoral election since the 1960s.
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How to Lose a County for 30 Years: A Democrat’s Guide to Rural Abandonment, Part III
Part III – Performance Politics and Real Infrastructure In the previous installments, which focused on North Texas and included interviews
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How to Lose a County for 30 Years: A Democrat’s Guide to Rural Abandonment: Part II
In Part II, this series examines how a strategy that traded rural regions for suburban gains reshaped Democratic identity in Texas, leaving national narratives to define the party where local institutions had already thinned.
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How to Lose a County for 30 Years: A Democrat’s Guide to Rural Abandonment: Part I
Amarillo, TX voted overwhelmingly for Trump for a third time and rejected a hardline anti-abortion ordinance, a contradiction that opens this three-part series’ broader argument about how decades of Democratic absence, more than ideological conversion, reshaped rural Texas politics.
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Cobalt: A Rising Force in National Security
Recently, a new actor has emerged in the theatres of war: cobalt. Despite its initial use as a colorant, the
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Miracle or Mundane? How Mississippi Turned Its Education Around
While Mississippi’s ascent in education rankings from 48th to 16th appeared to outsiders as miraculous, the truth is a victory
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No Kings Protests: A Prelude to the First General Strike in 80 Years
The No Kings Protests are a promising sign for unions proposing a 2028 general strike amid political opposition and institutional
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From Laquan McDonald to ICE: Chicago Again on the Front Line of National Transparency Battles
Beneath the well-publicised stipulations limiting the use of excessive force by federal immigration officers, Judge Sarah Ellis’ November 6 order
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Strength v.s. Smile: A Student Journalist Perspective on the Future of Gender-Biased TV Media
The way male and female politicians are described differently in TV media has the potential to change how the public views political candidates before they even get to learning about their policies.
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Veering into Authoritarianism: The Political Implications of the Insurrection Act
In a series of federal–local showdowns over National Guard deployments in cities like Chicago and Portland, the White House has
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