New Jersey 7th

New Jersey 7th

  The District The NJ 7th district is comprised of Short Hills, Hunterdon County, and large parts of the Morris, Somerset, Union, and Warren counties. The 7th also contains the majority of the Pingry community. Demographically the 7th district is 71% white but...

The South China Sea: 1947-2017

By Brian Li China’s infamous Nine-Dash Line in the South China Sea celebrated its 70th anniversary in December of 2017. Roughly coinciding with this anniversary was the 2017 the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Da Nang in November. Territorial disputes in...

Natural Disaster Management in the Wake of Hurricans

The first big hit of the hurricane season came in Texas. Hurricane Harvey made landfall in August of 2017 and flooded much of the Texas coastline, not to mention some of the surrounding states as well. Then, Hurricane Irma landed, ravaging parts of the Caribbean as...

The Bitcoin Blockchain and its Implications

Since its conception, Bitcoin and the mechanisms that make it work have been an object of both fascination and ridicule, with its enthusiasts insisting it is the way of the future and its detractors deriding it as a scheme doomed to fail. However, while debate over...

Making a Run For It

In 2017, one might assume that women and men are equally represented in government. From casual observation, women appear to be well-represented in a wide range of other professions. Why would the political realm be different, where the familiar faces of Hillary...