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TABLE OF CONTENTS Domestic 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS A HARD TURN LEFT Bernie Sanders and the return of the Democrats’ ideological gap by JEFFREY GREENBERG ‘17 6 Feature THE PRICE OF PRIVATIZATION How school decentralization leaves some students behind 16 MEET THE PROFESSORS A look into the political science department at Vanderbilt 20 THE PEOPLE’S COURT? Gay marriage and public opinion by ALAK MEHTA ‘16 by ALYSSA BLANCHARD ‘18 8 RAPE: A GLOBAL EPIDEMIC Female dehumanization and the way forward by LAUREN PAK ‘17 11 JUSTICE FOR THE 15 PERCENT A look at who healthcare legislation really serves by POULUMI BANERJEE ‘17 14 THE CONVERSION FARCE A harmful social practice persists by ALLIE DOTEN ‘18 International 22 AN UNKNOWN FATE The Iran Deal and its fallout by HARRISON EBELING ‘16 24 BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS Greece’s troubled place in Europe by CHRISTIAN TALLEY ‘16 28 11.10.2009 The begining of the end by SYDNEY BUB ‘18 30 COLD WAR ON TERROR Old tactics in a new age of geopolitics by KATIE FUSELIER ‘17 3