Author: Riley Murphy

Riley is a senior in high school from San Diego, California, who has an active interest in local and national politics. Riley has been involved in competitive Speech & Debate throughout high school, and writes for and produces his school's podcast news source. When he is not doing school work, Riley can be found playing the trumpet or listening to NPR.

Anti-Muslim PEGIDA Protests: An Artifact of Germany’s Past

Since October, there have been weekly marches by a group called Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident, also known as PEGIDA, increasing racism against Muslim citizens seeking asylum in Germany. Since the recent Charlie Hebdo massacre, the marches have gotten stronger in number, making the problem much more obvious. The major problem is […]

Hope for Victims of Campus Sexual Assault

Background With campus sexual assault appearing more often in the news, the story of a victim who later took her own life, Sasha Menu-Courey, has been gaining attention in the media. Sasha was a student at the University of Missouri when she was raped in 2010, causing her life to take a terrible turn. After […]