July 2022

The Foreign Agents Registration Act was passed in the Fall of 1938. Though FARA’s original purpose was largely to ferret out foreign government propagandists, the term “foreign principal” also includes foreign corporations, individuals, and associations. Joshua Ian Rosenstein, Member of Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock, P.C, explains that FARA is much broader than is commonly understood, as it covers more than just lobbying, instead regulating “political activities.”

The 2022 primary season has seen many twists and turns, upsets, medical emergencies, shocking TV ads, and scandals- but one feature of the 2022 primaries has received no attention: the emerging effort being led by Trump-aligned legislators to prevent millions of Americans from voting in primaries at all.

In January of 2008, the Pew Research Center released a report that said: “if current trends continue, the demographic profile of the United States will change dramatically by the middle of this century.” This was widely interpreted to be good news for one party; Demographics are the democrats’ best friend, or so thought many…

While media outlets are more than willing to show images of carnage during their reports on war and combat zones, they’re too afraid to show those needlessly gunned down throughout America. Why are there two different standards applied to the same human suffering when the shock of these images could help advance effective gun control measures into law?

Irwin and Karen Redlener, co-founders of the Ukraine Children’s Action Project, report on their most recent visit to the war-torn country, where they met with children, teachers, doctors, and government officials— introducing a plan that would help the children of Ukraine navigate the upcoming school year within their calamitous situation.

A major 2021 poll found that the largest portion of Americans surveyed believe that China is economically stronger than the United States, but is America really losing out to China? And if it is, what does that mean for tackling global challenges like climate change without Beijing?

There’s been a lot of talk about how 9% inflation has become Americans’ top concern, but far less discussion about how high gas prices, for example, are affecting day-to-day lives, especially over the summer travel period. Rich Thau and Jill Ditommaso asked 14 Wisconsin swing voters—who voted for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020—to describe how they are adapting to higher prices.

Our politicians’ failure to expose the common origin of many national issues may illustrate why liberals, Democrats, independents, and some Republicans are now politically impotent against a tide of political, social, educational, and juridical crises. Dr. Michael H. Gavin, author and President of Delta College, identifies that origin as The New White Nationalism.

After Russia invaded Ukraine, we learned that the U.S. responded with sanctions for Russia and humanitarian and military support to Ukraine. Though Ben Freeman, a Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute, reveals that most Americans don’t know that there was another battle being waged by a force as powerful in American politics as an army is on the battlefield: lobbyists.

A look into recent investment trends reveals a move among socially-conscious investors to screen potential ventures by environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria. While these investors may be well-intentioned, the ESG criteria are misleading due to faulty algorithms, and they do not represent what the public generally believes sustainable investing is. Instead, conscious investors should seek alternative investment methods to ensure that their sustainability efforts are not made in vain.