Reports that Trump calls El Salvador, Haiti and Africa ‘shithole’ countries create controversy According to CNN, on Jan. 11, after Trump rejected a pitch presented by a bipartisan team of members during a meeting at the White House regarding a DACA deal, the president asked the group, “Why do we want all these people from […]
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The UN does what?
Just as violent conflicts continued in Syria, Myanmar’s Rohingya minority fled persecution to neighboring Bangladesh and hurricanes ravaged through the Caribbean islands, I found myself at home writing a seven-page essay summarizing the foundations of the United Nations. Through my research for the paper and conversations with my parents and colleagues, I realized that the […]