Posts by Business Editor

By: Eliza Collison On January 6, 2021, pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol, contesting the results of the election.[1] The rioters heeded former President Trump’s cries to march to the Capitol.[2] Rioters broke into the Capitol, and several, including a Capitol police officer, ended up dead.[3] Within two days of the riot, Twitter permanently suspended former…

By: Sophie Edbrooke Title IX is a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in the athletic departments and other activities of universities that receive federal funding.[1] One way that schools can measure their compliance with Title IX is to ensure that the gender percentage of their varsity athletes is in a…

By: Ashlee Kuan On January 29, 2021, acting Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), Allison Herren Lee, along with Commissioners Hester M. Peirce, Elad L. Roisman, and Caroline A. Crenshaw, issued a statement stating that the Commission would begin an investigation into “the extreme price volatility of certain stocks’ trading prices .…

By: Zoe Deutsch On January 20, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America. A Democratic Senate, House, and White House now means that Democrats have substantial government control.[1] Although Congress and the White House will undoubtably turn much of their focus to controlling and eradicating…

By: Megan Cahill In American professional sports and the National Football League (“NFL”) specifically, people of color continue to be underrepresented in high-ranking administrative positions.[1] In 2003, the NFL tried to combat its lack of diversity by establishing the Rooney Rule.[2] The Rooney Rule requires “at least one person of color be interviewed as a candidate for…

By: Janice Lopez To the northeast of Phoenix, Arizona, in the Tonto National Forest, lies Oak Flat – sacred ground to the San Carlos Apache Tribe since “time immemorial,” and the site of a planned copper mine.[1] Resolution Copper – a foreign mining corporation – is poised to acquire approximately 2,500 acres of land in this…

By: Allison Bock Twitch is a relatively new platform that attracts individuals world-wide to stream any content they want from music, cooking, Q&A sessions and, most popularly, video games.[1]  Since its creation in 2011, Twitch grew exponentially and is now the most used platform for streaming video games, especially since Amazon bought it in 2014.[2]  Because users…

By: Alexandria Johnson The United States and China entered into 2020 with a trade deal and hopes that this agreement foretold a more cooperative future.[1] Two months into the new year, these hopes were crushed as COVID-19 tore through the globe and tensions heightened in a new arena: the media.[2] Once the virus appeared in the U.S.,…

By: Zhuo Zhao Communication in today’s day and age has been easier than it has ever been. Long distance phone calls and letters are no longer necessary with the creation of the internet and mobile applications. Now, communication is instant. WeChat, a mobile application owned by Tencent, is the primary means of communication to citizens…

By: Kolton Whitmire Earlier this month, the House Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee released its “Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets” (hereinafter “the Report”), which began in June of last year,[1] causing quite the stir.[2] The Report made a laundry list of recommendations to combat what it viewed as anticompetitive and…