By: Ashley Docherty, September 21, 2021 As Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity, central banks have begun to develop digital currencies, also called CBDCs, to make transactions faster and cheaper for consumers. Countries around the world have raced to created CBDCs in the hopes of making its currencies more enticing as reserve currencies […]
By: Kayla Bokzam September 17, 2021 Recently, states have begun passing laws allowing college athletes to profit off of the use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights. This wave of state legislation has pressured the National Collegiate Athletic Association to update their own policies regarding NIL, aligning their policies with state legislation. While […]
By: Edgar Cruz, September 13, 2021 There is a humanitarian crisis in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“XUAR”) in northwest China. Numerous media outlets have reported on the plight of Uyghur Muslims, an ethnic minority group which has been the target of the Chinese Communist Party’s (“CCP”) campaign to Sinicize Xinjiang. To Sinicize is “to […]
By: Emily Ariz In early August, the Trump Administration issued an executive order that would ban two Chinese-owned apps, TikTok and WeChat, from the U.S. market.[1] The executive order characterizes TikTok’s popularity in the U.S. as a “national emergency” arguing that “the spread . . . of mobile applications developed and owned by companies in […]
