BEN KENNEDY — Affordable housing in the United States has been a hot-button issue as rents and home prices have been rising steadily in recent years. Median rent growth has dramatically outpaced wage growth making finding affordable housing difficult for many Americans. This issue has been particularly troublesome in large coastal cities such as San […]
BECKY ESQUENAZI—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issues thousands of detainers per year. An immigration detainer, also referred to as an ICE hold, is a written notice from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that informs local law enforcement agencies that DHS intends to assume custody of an alien after their release. By issuing an […]
CAMERON CHUBACK—For the last two decades, the United States has faced a devastating opioid crisis. More than 130 people die every day of opioid overdoses, and approximately 400,000 deaths in total have occurred since the crisis’s inception, 47,000 of which came in 2017 alone. Moreover, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that […]
STEPHANIE ROBIN—On April 1, 2019, the Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision, ruled against a Missouri death row inmate who claimed that due to a rare disease, the lethal injection would cause him “severe pain and suffering.” Embed from Getty Images In Bucklew v. Precythe, Russell Bucklew, a convicted murderer sentenced to death, claimed that […]
CRISTOPHER GALIS—On April 8, 2019, Texas Tech played Virginia in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final, bringing March Madness to an end. Throughout March Madness approximately forty-seven million American’s wagered somewhere near eight and a half billion dollars on March Madness. This is the first year that some of that money could legally be bet outside […]
