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  • Millennials Are on the Frontlines of Social Innovation to End Discrimination
    April 5, 2012 | Reese Neader
     by May Mgbolu   Young people have long been involved in social justice movements, and today’s Millennials continue that legacy by tackling today’s issues. The quest for equal justice has sparked movements and empowered youth across the nation for decades. Reports of racism, discrimination, sexual harassment,...
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  • How We Can End DOMA’s Unfair Tax Burden on Same-Sex Couples
    April 5, 2012 | Reese Neader
     by Erik Lampmann While media reports characterize the United States as increasingly hospitable to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people, lived experience clearly speaks to the discrimination, isolation, and dehumanization faced by queer folks. Unfortunately, LGBTQ people in the United States face discrimination...
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  • Using Community Gardens to Grow Low-income Communities Out of Food Deserts
    April 5, 2012 | Reese Neader
     by Emily Apple March 20th marked the third anniversary of the planting of the White House vegetable garden, the first functioning garden since Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Garden. The garden is an essential part of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative that aims to help raise a generation of healthy, active kids...
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  • We Still Aren’t Meeting the Needs of Female Veterans
    April 5, 2012 | Reese Neader
    by Lily Roberts  Upon his retirement in January, General Peter Chiarelli, the vice chief of the U.S. Army, told reporters that prohibiting women from serving in combat was anachronistic. Female soldiers, he claimed, were essentially already seeing combat. “I have felt for the longest period of time that on a nonlinear battlefield there...
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  • Sponsoring Study Abroad: The Most Cost Effective Foreign Policy Tool
    April 5, 2012 | Reese Neader
     by Tahsin Chowdury The United States faces many obstacles in foreign policy, but major one is growing anti-American sentiment. Studies show that global opinion toward the United States has plummeted since 2002. But we can address this problem through soft power diplomatic approaches like international education. Global...
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  • Redefining NATO’s Role for the 21st Century
    April 5, 2012 | Reese Neader
     by Daniel Pitcairn In 1949, a military alliance was forged between the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic region with the clear purpose of deterring Soviet expansion and aggression in Europe. As Lord Ismay, the first Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, put it, NATO was founded to “keep the...
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  • The Millennial Plan to Defend a World With No Borders
    April 5, 2012 | Reese Neader
     by Ahmad Soliman Millennials’ foreign policy will be characterized by a distinct departure from the hegemonic dominance to which we have grown accustomed. It will be a foreign policy that emphasizes the building of democratic global institutions rather than nation building — a foreign policy dedicated to cooperation toward...
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  • UNC Roosevelt on Amendment One
    April 1, 2012 | Francis Wong
     North Carolina voters who go to the polls on May 8 will decide whether to enact or reject a proposed change to the state’s constitution that seeks to limit the definition of civilly-recognized marriage to one man and one woman. Amendment One, as the proposed change is known, ranks among the most restrictive in a wave of similar...
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  • E-Government Can Help Entrepreneurs Cut Through Red Tape
    March 22, 2012 | Dante Barry
     As part of the 10 Ideas: New Ideas for a New Economy series, a proposal to create a one-stop resource that would ease the regulatory burden on the recovery’s real job creators. by Blake Falk, UNC-Chapel Hill “We know the startup sector is important, and it is sputtering.”So said Dennis Lockhart, president of...
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  • How a Simple Tax Credit Can Save the State of Michigan
    March 22, 2012 | Dante Barry
     As part of the 10 Ideas: New Ideas for a New Economyseries, a tax break plan for Michiganders burdened by student debt that would stop the state’s brain drain and give a much needed boost to its economy. by Adam Watkins, University of Michigan Michigan lawmakers are failing the state’s college students. Once a strong...
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