By: Lucas Ealy  The Policy Problem  The National School Lunch Program was implemented to address two specific issues: malnutrition among American youth in families and the need for supporting farmers across the nation. Despite having two points of issue, the primary focus will be on the former issue as it has the primary impact on children in American schools. Like this issue and all others that exist in a country, there is a solution for it that can be dealt […]

By: Nick Paris Immigration has been one of the hottest issues in politics over the last couple years, proving to be one of the biggest downfalls of the Biden administration and a key factor in Donald Trump’s election.[1] One of the issues that reached the docket this summer was the case Department of State v. Muñoz, which decided on whether a man deserved American citizenship on grounds of being married to a citizen. Luis Asencio-Cordero, an El Salvadorian citizen with […]

By: Addie Grace Pyron Executive Summary Though they garner some social taboo, “off-gridders” are onto something. The extent to which our personal information is readily available to law enforcement agencies is most likely much more than the average citizen in our technological world would expect, and it stems back to the courts’ continued use of the (now arguably antiquated) third-party doctrine. This paper will explore the development and application of the third-party doctrine, arguing that it is no longer suitable […]

By: Michael Regnier Introduction This past April, the American Enterprise Institute Club at The University of Alabama hosted Chris Stirewalt, a preeminent scholar and political commentator from AEI and NewsNation. While the focus of Stirewalt’s talk was his three proposals to “fix” American politics (increase the size of the House of Representatives, end gerrymandering, end party primaries), he, almost as an aside, criticized the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also called the McCain-Feingold Act) calling it one of Congress’ […]