Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows | vol. X
Public school students are the latest victims of corporate favoritism in national policy. Although policies on school lunch are advertised as beneficial to student health, in reality the only benefactors are the companies that won the contracts to provide lunch to millions of students across the country.
Read MoreOn October 6th, the Supreme Court denied seven petitions for writs of certiorari to review same-sex marriage cases from three Courts of Appeals. In doing so, the Supreme Court refused to interfere with decisions that overturned bans on same-sex marriage in Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Utah. The course charted by the Supreme Court allows lower courts to continue to address the issue.
Read MoreThe College Board recently unveiled a framework for its Advanced Placement (AP) United States History exam that encourages the politicization of American History. The College Board claims that the extensive guide will be just one of many tools in the hands of teachers, who use the company’s content guides to prepare students to pass the AP U.S. History exam. In reality, it stifles freedom of thought and prevents students from examining history from a variety of perspectives.
Read MoreThe United States suffers from the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world: an appalling federal rate of 35%. Comparatively, the UK has a corporate tax rate of 21% and Ireland a mere 12.5%. This excessive taxation hinders domestic investment and job growth and encourages corporations to relocate overseas.
Read MoreThe marriage rate in the United States has consistently declined in the past 50 years while the percentage of children growing up with one parent has increased. If this doesn’t seem alarming to many of us today, it’s because we have a very different idea of marriage than the one that existed in the past. Until recently, marriage has been regarded as the means for starting a family and raising children. A decline in marriage means a decline in the only institution that can raise a new generation of people and ensure that they have the personal qualities and support necessary to succeed and be good individuals.
Read MoreGenetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been hotly disputed since their inception over thirty years ago. Food altered by agricultural biotechnology has been approached with suspicion by groups who disregard legitimate scientific assurances to the safety of genetically modified foods. Mandatory labelling on GMOs would only serve to brand healthy food options as unsafe to those who do not understand the difference but fear the implication of danger. In fact, scientific research conducted on GMOs over the past decade has concluded that there is no credible evidence that GMOs pose any unique threat to the environment or the public’s health. Despite the presence of controversial and discredited anti-GMO studies, such as the one conducted by Gilles-Éric Séralini, the safety of genetically modified crops is still assured by the scientific community. Attacking the development of GM technology, would only limit the benefits such advances could offer to humanity: namely, an end to world hunger.
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