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Politics

Student Viewpoints over Political Topics or Events

At the beginning of this story, you have a choice. It is a choice that should be simple, but due to partisan machinations, has become near impossible to resolve. This choice has to deal with what the media has dubbed the “migrant caravan.” Your choice is how you react to these images of suffering. Do you accept the machinations...
In an age where succinct sound bites of information, snaps, and tweets eclipse studies and cross-referencing information, TL;DR (too long didn’t read) and social media has ushered us into an age dominated by headlines and articles that oversimplify complex issues. We have grown accustomed to digesting complicated information in a title and having simple conversations about complex issues. But...
On January 20th, 2017, to the horror and shock of people around the world, former reality star Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the President of the United States of America. Trump has proceeded to flail his way to the lowest approval ratings of any president in modern history, with only 40% of the country approving of his...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, US cities and workplaces have gradually lifted restrictions. As this occurs, the foreboding impact of the pandemic arrives: economic recession. This financial crisis is seen through rising inflation, unemployment and commodity prices. Moreover, this recession’s detrimental effects are accompanied by the drop of oil prices, ensuing energy crisis and Russo-Ukrainian War. But, let’s examine the...
By now, you probably know a great deal about Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in his sleep on February 13th, to much surprise, at age 79. Give the press about 15 minutes, and you have an addition to the level of intensity of relations in Washington. With calls to name Scalia's replacement quickly from the left,...
Schools are supposed to be a safe haven for students, a place where students come to learn and socialize with their fellow peers. Yet, when schools do not provide these spaces, America has decided to make it worse for these students.  Instead of fostering a community, conservatives across the country have been trying to maintain the status quo education system...
Democratic Presidential Candidates The midterms are over, a new Congress has been elected with a Democratic majority in the House and a Republican majority in the Senate and all this happened close to the Kavanaugh confirmations which left a conservative majority in the Supreme Court. This leaves two-thirds of the government in the hands of the Republican party and while...
Ambitious, brilliant, and stubborn. These qualities are often used to describe the 6th President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, and his long public service to our country. The son of the wiry old John Adams, one of the nation's founding fathers, John Quincy Adams was born as a member of America's "second generation" of political leaders. With...

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