Domestic Policy

Ticketmaster, Taylor, and the Takedown of the Modern Monopoly?

On Tuesday, November 15, 2022, entertainment giant Ticketmaster began to sell tickets for Taylor Swift’s tour, but their lack of preparedness led to long wait lines, system crashes, and legislators calling for an overhaul of the ever-powerful oligopoly. While monopolies have a long history in the United States, their power has undoubtedly evolved beyond the […]

10 Years After Sandy Hook: Gun-Violence in the United States has Only Gotten Worse

December 14th, 2022 marked the 10 year anniversary of the Sandy Hook School massacre, a day in which 20 children and 6 teachers were murdered at the Newtown Elementary school in Connecticut. Despite politicians’ statements that they would attempt to fix the problem of gun-violence throughout the country, few pieces of federal legislation have since […]