The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010, giving millions of Americans access to affordable health insurance. What people do not know is that Massachusetts laid the groundwork for the ACA through...
Fireworks exploded in the sky, crowds cheered for another successful development in space technology and the U.N. condemned the launch of a North Korean long-range rocket.
On Feb. 7, the Democratic People’s...
What do the domino effect and global economics have in common?
In the same manner that one Communist nation can politically affect a neighboring government, an economic expansion or contraction in one...
Ian Penny, World & Nation Editor
• February 19, 2016
Afghanistan
The United Nations published a report indicating the number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan during 2015 was the highest since recordkeeping began in 2009. Last year, the U.N. logged...
Is the International Criminal Court really international? If so, why have no developed countries had criminals indicted?
The ICC, established in July, 2002, is the first permanent international court...
As casual conversations at Guilford snake their way around to political discussions, the upcoming presidential primary election is at the forefront of most Guilfordians’ minds. Whispers of Trump, Cruz,...
Ian Penny, World & Nation Editor
• February 12, 2016
Columbia
The Constitutional Court of Colombia made a ruling prohibiting mining operations and petroleum projects from the country’s paramos regions. Paramos are moorland ecosystems typically found...
Ian Penny, World & Nation Editor
• February 12, 2016
On a map, the 12th Congressional District of North Carolina takes a shape vaguely reminiscent of a dragon, snaking its way north along Interstate 85 from Charlotte to the Piedmont Triad. In the eastern...
A “public health emergency of international concern” is how the World Health Organization recently classified the Zika virus.
At this point, the Zika virus has infected over 20 countries in Central...
