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Boris Nezlobin

Web Director, Editorial Board Editor

Member since May 2024

Love programming, photography, and writing! Outside of writing (both English and code), I enjoy robotics and breaking things. I'm a big fan of early-2000s rap, video games, and applying mathematics to things (I'm an applied math major). I made this website :)

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Editorial Board

The Matrix

The dystopian movie The Matrix was released in 1999 and tells the story of a future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped in the Matrix, a simulated reality created by artificial intelligence in or...

8 min read

Editorial Board

The Chinese Century?

Over the last 30 years, the world has watched a steady uprising of the People’s Republic of China. This progress can be seen in multiple elements, especially in the socioeconomic indicators and the ev...

10 min read

Open Press

Open Press

Editorial Board

2020s Diplomacy

The United Nations officially came into existence on October 24, 1945, in San Francisco, right after the World War II, which was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by crimes against human...

8 min read

Open Press

Where Art Meets Politics: Inside the 98th Academy Awards

Open Press

Editorial Board

Where Art Meets Politics: Inside the 98th Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, or the Oscars, are widely considered the most prestigious and famous film awards in the world. Beginning in early 1929 with a $5 dollar dinner and 15-minute-long celebration just m...

7 min read

Open Press

Open Press

Editorial Board

The Epstein Files

On January 30, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released 3 million new pages of the Epstein Files—the batch includes more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The pages consist of email chains, text m...

8 min read

Open Press

Open Press

Editorial Board

The Quiet Decline of U.S. Education

The United States, long regarded as the world’s dominant power, has long prided itself on technological innovations and universities that are a symbol of academic excellence. With 420 Nobel laureates,...

8 min read

Open Press

Trumpist Foreign Policy and Its Consequences

Open Press

Editorial Board

Trumpist Foreign Policy and Its Consequences

The state of these United States is grim. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have ravaged the country with illegal invasion practices, summarily executing two legal observers in Minnesota and ...

7 min read

Open Press

Open Press

Editorial Board

The Power of Youth Voice

A debate over the extent of youth participation in politics has existed at some level through generational shifts and ideological changes. But today, the argument that young people are apolitical, apa...

11 min read

Open Press

Open Press

Editorial Board

A Tale of Two Economies

On the 25th of September, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that in the second quarter of 2025 the projected annual gross domestic product (GDP, the value of all finished goods and services ...

9 min read

Open Press

[title Revoked for National Security Purposes]

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[title Revoked for National Security Purposes]

On September 25th, the White House released a National Security Presidential Memorandum aimed at countering the spread of political violence and domestic terrorism that has, in their words, “dramatica...

8 min read

Open Press

Five Boroughs and a Socialist: Zohran Mamdani’s Challenge to the Democratic Party

Open Press

Editorial Board

Five Boroughs and a Socialist: Zohran Mamdani’s Challenge to the Democratic Party

On July 1st of this year, Zohran Mamdani emerged from the primary election as the Democratic nominee to become mayor of New York City — a massive upset win over Andrew Cuomo, former governor of the st...

9 min read

Domestic Politics

The Use of Fear in Politics

H.P. Lovecraft, widely regarded as one of the greatest horror writers of all time, once claimed that “the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is ...

11 min read

Opinion

The Real America Doesn’t Want Revolution, it Wants Roads: Alaska, West Virginia, and the Ghost of a Forgotten Country

I was recently in Alaska for a rugged vacation. Starting in Anchorage, I drove up into Fairbanks, took the famous “Dalton Highway” up to the Arctic Circle, and to the truckstop-turned-small-vill...

8 min read

Opinion

A Kaleidoscope Called Feminism

Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights based on equality of the sexes. That’s the simplest answer. This idea of feminism has been misconstrued and misinterpreted constantly since its origin, from...

4 min read

Philosophy

Why We Procrastinate (and What it Says About Being Human)

I started writing this on the day of the deadline. This document sat here with just a title, an article about procrastination that I’ve been putting off for days. Ironic, right? But maybe starting late...

3 min read

Opinion

America Has Lost Its Role in the World

Today, we don’t know what type of country we want to be, and neither party has a solution. “On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein’s ability to wage war. These are the opening stages of what will be a broad and ...

16 min read