March 14, 2018 — It’s mid-March and the madness is upon us, both in the form of college sports and changing public policy. In the nation’s capital, the month kicked off with a series of resignations, firings, and denials from the White House over payments for past sexual improprieties and disagreements on policy. Yesterday…

March 1, 2018 — It’s March! We’re back to recap the news from the month of February, a month that comprised Black History Month as well as the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. In top news, the month kicked off with a large market selloff, where stocks fell precipitously in response to…

January 31, 2018 — It’s the end of January! We’ve had lengthy set of events to close out the second half of the month, kicked off by a budgetary showdown and three-day shutdown of the federal government that ended when Senate Democrats agreed to keep the government open through February 8th in exchange for…

January 15, 2018 — It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! Belated greetings to 2018, hope everyone survived the cold weather of early January. There’s a lot of news to cover from the first two weeks of the year, which we’ll get to after recapping the biggest headlines thus far this year, notably the failure…

December 17, 2017 — It’s Sunday. We’re back to give you our weekly recap of all of the events of the past seven days. The main event of the week came on Tuesday with the special senate election in Alabama, where Democratic nominee Doug Jones pulled off an upset victory over the scandal-plagued Republican…

December 9, 2017 — It’s Saturday. Welcome back to the newsletter, which we’ll hopefully maintain as a weekly occurrence from now through the end of the year. It was a jam-packed week in developments so we’ll just quickly run through the week’s top headlines. At the onset of the week, the Supreme Court ruled…

December 1, 2017 — It’s December! Welcome to the newsletter, where we aggregate the top stories and interesting analyses from the second half of November. Following the Thanksgiving break, news broke that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn will plead guilty over his involvement with Russian officials during and following the 2016 presidential election…

November 15, 2017 — It’s Wednesday, the midpoint of the week! We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus due to recent scheduling conflicts but have returned with a mid-November update on the headlines and analyses of the past few weeks. With that said, let’s recap. Last Sunday, a gunman walked into a church…

October 28, 2017 — It’s Saturday and the end of the fourth week of October. The week produced a number of significant events conveying abroad and at home. In Spain, the government issued a crackdown on Catalonia’s regional government in an attempt to suppress the Catalonian independence movement; the Chinese Communist Party amended its…