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The United States Captures Maduro: The Operation, Legality, and the Future of Venezuela

In the early morning of January 3rd, on the refreshing break of a clean-slated new year, Donald Trump's animosity culminated in an order to carry out the Delta Force's long-planned invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of Venezuela's dictator in...

NBA December Power Rankings; Spoiler: Mavericks Are Not Included

Now, as we sit a month and a half into the NBA season, teams are starting to reveal themselves as true contenders or expose themselves as pretenders. Hoping to compare with my initial power rankings on the year, I...

The Path of a Pacifist – Is it the Solution?

We live in a conflict-ridden world. This statement will not be debated in this article but will rather be treated as an axiom on which this essay is built. Yes, it can be discussed the extent to which conflict...

Industry Change: The Warner Bros. Discovery Buyout

On Friday, December 5th, Netflix announced that they will be acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery’s Studios and Streaming Division for ~82.7 Billion Dollars, subsequently now leading the bidding war over the financially strained production company. However, Paramount, originally showing extreme...

The Mint of Citizenry

Within the ancient world, the city-state of Athens had two major sources of renown; its democracy, the most prominent in Greece, and the stability of its coinage. The Athenian mint was considered extremely reliable in the ancient world, and...

NFL Playoff Hypotheticals to Entertain the Cancun Dwellers

With my favorite team out of the playoffs and a long offseason ahead, us Cancun fans have to find a way to stay entertained while we watch other teams do what we failed to do. And, fingers crossed, if...

“The Worst of the Worst”

As ICE activity has surged in Minneapolis following the killing of Renee Nicole Good, the DHS has spoken highly about ICE primarily arresting "the worst of the worst." This phrase, "The worst of the worst," has been frequently repeated...

How Does the War Actually End?

Three years and an estimated 1.5 million total casualties into what the Kremlin once called a “three-day special military operation,” the question still comes up: Who will win? In one sense, the answer is already clear. Russia failed to...

The Dismantling of a Franchise: What Happened to the Mavericks?

I think everyone in Dallas remembers exactly what they were doing when they found out about the trade that sent Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers in return for Anthony Davis. I, for example, remember waking up on...