Pro-life rights also include life of mother


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On Monday, Praveen Halappanavar was questioned in an Irish court about the events surrounding the death of his wife, Savita Halappanavar. Savita Halappanavar, an Indian dentist who moved from southwest India to Dublin with her husband in 2008, was 17 weeks pregnant when she was sent to University Hospital Galway on Oct. 21, 2012 after […]

How effective will the new strict Conn gun reform law be?


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Lawmakers need to do more to restrict other kinds of guns and ammunition, as well as more strict background checks. According to CNN, the Connecticut state government, reacting to the Sandy Hook massacre from December, has created a new law designed to decrease the deadliness of American weapons in its state. The new law, which […]

‘Best-looking’ remarks opposite of sexist


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As a figure upheld for his tolerance and politically correct take on the world, President Barack Obama has taken an incredible amount of heat from critics for a comment he made last Thursday at a fundraising lunch in Atherton, Calif., at the Democratic National Committee. While praising California Attorney General Kamala Harris as “brilliant,” “dedicated” […]

New streaming business model paves way


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When kids in the modern day want to kick back with their favorite television show after a long, hard day’s work, very few turn on their actual television sets. With the advent of Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go and dozens of other streaming sites, as well as the handy DVR and TiVo recording devices, the idea […]

Euthanasia lingers in ethical gray area


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A smoking revolver, one dead woman and a confession from the very man who committed the act — the evidence for murder is all there in the details of Arizona man George Sanders’ “mercy killing” of his 81-year-old wife, Virginia. Lost in the distant objectivity of the headlines, however, is a heartbreaking story of love, […]

Should women be told to find a partner in college?


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Collegiate women should not count out the possibility of finding their mates in college for the sake of their careers. On Friday, a female Princeton alumna named Susan A. Patton, Class of ’77, wrote a guest column for the Daily Princetonian.Though it isn’t strange for someone to send a letter to the editor, this one […]

Americans must respect military privacy


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Just when everyone thought they had gotten a glimpse into what really happened during the military operation that killed infamous al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, another account comes out contradicting it. This additional account arrived last week from a member of SEAL Team 6, the military unit that executed the May 2011 raid on bin […]

Microfinancing helps with crisis


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Kiva announced last week that it has passed the $400 million milestone in microloans, a landmark achievement for an organization that relies on private donors to finance loans as small as $25 in developing countries. This field, known as “microfinance,” has recently become immensely popular, inspiring similar movements across the nation. In 2009, New York […]

Focus on ignorance, not just racism


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It’s not uncommon in 2013 to hear a media outlet of some sort calling on Americans for a “frank and honest discussion about race.” Quite honestly, a large proportion of articles I’ve read that document racial and cultural tensions seem to conclude with an anecdote about how Americans need to talk about race in order […]