Lack of congressional term limits a threat to democracy


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Congress ended session on Sept. 23, giving Americans another opportunity to evaluate their representatives before engaging in their civic duty at the ballot boxes this November. Though Congressmen will spend the next six weeks back at their home districts to address their reelection campaigns, Americans have yet another opportunity to assess the elements plaguing this […]

Protests spurring Hong Kong down the road to democracy


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In the 1980s and early ’90s, Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union satellites were experiencing the growing pains of democratic revolutions, highlighted by the bloody end of the rule of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu. Twenty years later, the democratic fever of the world spread to the Middle East. And now, three years later, it appears […]

Fox News slipup brings issue of military sexism to the forefront


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Once again, a Fox News host has made an insensitive remark on air, leading to national outrage. This time, however, it is not just average citizens who are upset; members of the U.S. military are also furious. Last week, Fox News host Eric Bolling referred to the United Arab Emirates’ first female fighter pilot, Mariam […]

Incendiary language in U.N. address renders efforts futile


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Last Friday, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas delivered an incendiary address to the United Nations General Assembly. His speech was packed with fighting words — rhetoric that, in an ironic twist, has turned out to be points of weakness.  Though his proposal to end Israeli occupation in the West Bank expresses his people’s frustrations well, Abbas’s […]

President Abbas’s speech opens up a chance at lasting peace


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In perhaps his most fiery speech since this past summer’s violence between Israel and Hamas, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the United Nations General Assembly Friday, blasting Israel for conducting a “war of genocide” over its 50-day operation in Gaza that resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 Palestinians and 69 Israelis. In […]