A nineteen-year-old walks into a campus police station to report the worst night of her life. She gives a six-page sworn statement. Then she waits. Nobody calls her back. That, according to her attorney, is what happened to the woman now suing Cornell University and seven former and current Chi Phi members. Her lawsuit alleges she was drugged and gang raped at the fraternity house in October 2024. The defendants deny it, and their lawyers say the complaint misstates the record. Those claims will be tested in court, as they should be, and yet, there’s a secondary story that needs…
Author: Isha Mallareddy
Isha Mallareddy
Isha is a Political Science student who plans to attend law school and pursue a career in corporate law. She is interested in the relationship between business and government, particularly in the role law plays in both the public and private sectors.
Sunday, September 7, 2026. Saxony-Anhalt state election. According to CNBC-reported exit polls, the Alternative für Deutschland party took 44.4 percent of the vote, putting Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives in the rearview mirror at only 18.3 percent. No far-right party has come this close to running a German state on its own since 1945. Zoom out to the national election, and it’s the same story on a bigger stage: AfD is polling around 28 percent nationally. Comfortably first, with the CDU trailing behind by seven or eight points. This change isn’t a blip. This didn’t come out of nowhere. AfD has…
In July, twelve state attorneys general sued to stop Paramount Skydance from buying Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) in a $110 billion deal. California’s Rob Bonta is leading that coalition, and the numbers his office put forth are hard to shrug off. Together, the two companies would control roughly 27% of wide-release theatrical film distribution and about 27% of basic cable licensing. After the merger, just three studios would remain responsible for controlling roughly three quarters of the films that actually play in theaters. For critics of the deal, that’s a sign the market is becoming too concentrated. At first glance,…
Photo courtesy of PickPik (Public Domain) “What do you think is the minimum amount someone needs to live comfortably in New York?” “I feel like the homeless people on the street are pretty comfortable.” – TikTok, @Ohana NYC, July 3, 2026 The reality is a lot less comfortable. New Yorkers have heard “the market is tight” for years. However, July’s numbers are on another level. For instance, Manhattan’s rent averaged $6,655 a month, the highest ever recorded, and the median hit $5,000 for the first time in the city’s history. Previously, Brooklyn acted as the fallback for people priced out…