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F-18s, 1415, Target, Tomahawks, MQ-9s: U.S. Leadership in the Spotlight

On March 21, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated, “Under the previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore.” Days later, a private group chat filled with sensitive military information between Secretary Hegseth, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and numerous aides and assistants surfaced. Waltz mistakenly sent a request to Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, to join the chat.

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Unfollowed by Uncle Sam: The Fight Between National Security and Personal Freedoms

The battle over TikTok in the United States has reached a pivotal moment, with the popular social media app now officially banned following a Supreme Court decision that upheld a law mandating its sale or shutdown. The move has sparked a heated debate over national security concerns and personal freedoms, leaving millions of American users in limbo.

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How Social Media Influences Global Political Movements

Social media platforms are facing a myriad of criticisms, ranging from accusations of contributing to rising anxiety and suicide rates among Amer­ican teenagers to profiting from selling personal data and compromising indi­vidual privacy. The Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 demonstrated that prominent racial justice and equal­ity movements could be organized through digital activism, which gained widespread support and online en­gagement. Social media is an instru­ment of political change, but these changes are dangerously consequen­tial. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Capitol riots in the United States, and increase in political polarization, the world is abandoning the perception that social media does not significant­ly impact domestic and world politics.

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