Alexa Corse

WSJ • 17th December 2019

Spending Deal Allots Millions for Election Security, but Democrats Say It Isn’t Enough

The U.S. House voted Tuesday to provide more funding to help states secure their election systems, but Democrats argued that the compromise still doesn’t do enough.

WSJ • 21st November 2019

Report: Election Security Agency Grapples With Staffing, Budget Cuts

The federal agency responsible for setting election security standards is grappling with key leadership vacancies and inadequate funding, a government watchdog office has found.

WSJ • 4th November 2019

Brexit Can Wait. Boris Johnson Has Other Problems: Crosswalks, Tree Trimming

UXBRIDGE, England--Since 1902 when the last prime minister from the unelected House of Lords resigned, every British prime minister has been an elected lawmaker. So if Mr. Johnson doesn’t get re-elected in this west London district, he gets kicked out of office.

WSJ • 29th August 2019

Measles Cases Are on the Rise in Europe, WHO Says

Europe is seeing a resurgence of measles with nearly 90,000 cases in the first half of 2019, underscoring the necessity for more people to be vaccinated, the WHO said.

WSJ • 21st August 2019

In Northern Ireland, Young People Worry Bloody History Could Return After Brexit

NEWRY, Northern Ireland—People who have come of age in Northern Ireland since a 1998 peace deal have avoided the violence that beset the region for three decades. Brexit is making them worry that could change.

WSJ • 26th July 2019

Boris Johnson Turns to Maverick Brexit Architect to Deliver EU Split

LONDON—Dominic Cummings, an architect of the 2016 referendum campaign to leave the European Union, has spent the past three years railing against the government for its failure to break with the bloc. Now the fate of Brexit lies partly in his hands.

Department of Communication, Stanford University • 6th January 2019

Winning Essay for 2019 Daniel Pearl Memorial Internship

The internship with The Wall Street Journal was established to commemorate the work and ideals of Pearl, a Stanford graduate and Journal foreign correspondent who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002.

WSJ • 19th October 2018

Swift Justice: New Appellate Judge Courts Trouble With Traffic Cops

Ryan D. Nelson is a man in a hurry—really, in a hurry. It’s not just that Mr. Nelson, an Idaho attorney, has leapfrogged over the U.S. District Court bench to garner President Trump’s lifetime appointment to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

WSJ • 28th August 2018

Sen. John McCain Remembered as Principled Leader

Washington awoke Sunday to an outpouring of grief and condolences, as leaders and commentators from both sides of the political aisle paid homage to Sen. John McCain after the Republican lawmaker’s family confirmed his death on Saturday from brain cancer.

WSJ • 21st August 2018

States Detail Election-Security Plans

State election officials plan to spend about two thirds of election security money allocated by Congress earlier this year on new voting equipment and cybersecurity efforts. But the bulk of improvements won't be completed before the November elections.

WSJ • 25th August 2018

Judge Curbs Trump Orders That Made It Easier to Fire Federal Workers

A federal district judge in the District of Columbia struck down key parts of three of President Trump’s executive orders that make it easier to fire federal employees deemed to be underperforming by their managers.

WSJ • 11th August 2018

No, You Can’t Vote Via Text or Tweet

As midterm elections loom, state officials and social-media companies work to combat disinformation on how to vote.

WSJ • 1st August 2018

Court Says Trump Bid to Withhold Aid from Sanctuary Cities Is Unconstitutional

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that President Trump’s executive order threatening to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities is unconstitutional, dealing a setback to his push for more aggressive immigration enforcement.

WSJ • 20th July 2018

Legal Challenges Leave Sanctuary Immigration Policies in Limbo

The legal challenges to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s crackdown on “sanctuary” immigration practices have left Mr. Sessions’s policy in an uneven state, with both sides claiming victory.

WSJ • 19th July 2018

Mueller Indictment Adds Urgency to Securing 2018 Midterm Elections

PHILADELPHIA—Special counsel Robert Mueller’s latest move briefly hijacked a closed-door meeting of state election officials and federal cybersecurity personnel here last Friday, as phones buzzed with news alerts about his indictment against Russians allegedly behind a spree of hacks before the 2016 election.

WSJ • 15th July 2018

New Slate of U.S. Attorneys Aids Sessions’ Law-and-Order Push

The methodical installation of U.S. attorneys has helped Attorney General Jeff Sessions implement his law-and-order platform, a tougher approach that’s been praised by supporters as long overdue and decried by critics as turning back the clock on civil rights.

WSJ • 14th July 2018

Homeland Security Chief: Mueller Indictment Shows Foreign Election-Meddling Has Consequences

PHILADELPHIA—Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen warned Saturday that Russia’s election interference amounted to a “direct attack on our democracy"...

SoundCloud • 26th March 2018

"Brothers" podcast by Alexa Corse

Eight-minute podcast about one millennial who's stepped up to take care of his wheelchair-bound younger brother. He's learned that caregiving is a two-way relationship.

WSJ • 22nd January 2018

U.S. Strategy Shift in Syria Turns Focus to Iran From ISIS

STANFORD, Calif.—The U.S. will turn its focus in Syria to moving to reduce Iranian influence there, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a policy speech that marked a shift in U.S. strategy in Syria away from Islamic State.

WSJ • 4th September 2017

Confusion Remains Over Decision to Cancel New FBI Headquarters

The sudden July decision to cancel a multimillion-dollar search for a new Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters has raised doubts among developers about seeking government business.