Gabriel Exposito, Author at The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College

The Political Right Has An Edge Over Its Leftist Counterparts

June 9, 2017 Gabriel Exposito Trump, misinformation

The most powerful tool the Trumpian right has employed to maintain support is a massive misinformation campaign. I am not suggesting there is a reactionary media conspiracy in the works, but rather, that many President Donald J. Trump supporters run to their echo-chambers (the right’s version of a safe… Read the rest at our website.

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Confucius Institute: China’s Use Of Soft Power Or Bridge Between Cultures?

April 13, 2017 Gabriel Exposito Confucius Institute

In the early 1990s, China experienced an economic boom that would push it to become the world’s second largest economy as well as an emerging power. The Chinese government has made use of its exponential economic growth by creating organizations that represent the interests of the country, one of… Read the rest at our website.

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Town Halls Came To Miami, But Where Were All The Young People?

March 17, 2017 Gabriel Exposito Politics, town halls

In recent weeks, members of Congress have been holding town halls—a local meeting with their constituents—throughout the nation in order to address the concerns of citizens regarding immigration reform, the Russian interference on the 2016 election, and the presently-unknown Obamacare replacement plan. Local South Florida representatives have not followed… Read the rest at our website.

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Repealing the Iran Nuclear Deal Puts The US In Peril

January 27, 2017 Gabriel Exposito 0 Comments Politics, Trump, Iran

In April of 2016, secretary of state John Kerry addressed MDC Honors College students at the Miami Freedom Tower, where he remarked that we must “find a diplomatic solution to the catastrophic civil war in Syria.” His efforts to broker a ceasefire in Syria were, however, partly hindered by… Read the rest at our website.

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The Lasting Effects Of A Trump Presidency

January 17, 2017 Gabriel Exposito Donald Trump

Away from the noise of building a wall, deporting millions and the usual remarks by Donald Trump which saturate every political piece out there, the president-elect could hurt the American public and deal a significant blow to free speech in a lesser known way. The impact the president has… Read the rest at our website.

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What Went Wrong With The Clinton Campaign

December 5, 2016 Gabriel Exposito Hillary Clinton, Clinton, Opinion, Election, Presidential Election

On the eve of the 2016 presidential election, The New York Times put up an election forecast page with polls and infographics detailing how each state was likely to behave during election night. Their conclusion? Hillary Clinton had an 85 percent chance of winning the election, listing a staggering… Read the rest at our website.

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What I Learned From iDebate Rwanda

November 19, 2016 Gabriel Exposito Opinion, Rwanda, Africa

Rwanda is a small eastern African country widely known for its grotesque 1994 genocide, which took 800,000 to a million lives in a 100-day period. To put such tremendous loss of life into perspective, 2,977 people died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In Rwanda’s case, the genocide is… Read the rest at our website.

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Let’s Not Trump NATO

October 18, 2016 Gabriel Exposito Election, Opnion, NATO, Russia, Forum, Presidency, Trump

The most successful military alliance to have ever existed is under threat, not by a Warsaw Pact 2.0, but by the very people it has protected for more than half a century. The trend of romanticizing isolationism, amplified by Donald Trump’s rhetoric, has gained momentum. In Trump’s words, the… Read the rest at our website.

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A Nixonian Approach To The Middle East

September 9, 2016 Gabriel Exposito Middle East

The nature of hostilities between the United States and its adversaries has changed enormously since the Cold War. The recent engagements the U.S. has participated in have served as a means to communicate American interest, most notably, the quasi attempt to democratize the Middle East. The policy of democratization… Read the rest at our website.

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How the War In Syria Affected Brexit

August 17, 2016 Gabriel Exposito 0 Comments Syria, Europe, Brexit

The migrant crisis in Europe is a phenomenon we are all aware of. However, living across the Atlantic, it is difficult to understand its role in one of the biggest decisions made in Great Britain. The shocking referendum to leave the European Union is a consequence of a larger… Read the rest at our website.

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