Jack the Ripper takes on new life through cinema


No other serial killer has infected our collective unconscious quite like Jack the Ripper. He is history’s resident boogeyman, a nameless, faceless ghoul who stalked the street corners around London’s Whitechapel District from 1888 until roughly 1891, murdering and mutilating at least five women, most of them prostitutes, before receding into the fog of myth. […]

Congress must speak up on its war powers


For Congress, it is rare for the mere act of voting to become more significant than the outcome of that vote. If the United States is to take significant military action against the Islamic State, they must do so with authorization from Congress. To allow anything else, including the unbridled and open-ended conflict that President […]

Students take action against police brutality


Amanda Feiwell, a freshman majoring in political science, chalks a body outline on Trousdale Parkway as part of an event hosted by the Young Americans for Liberty. Students drew the outlines to commemorate victims of police violence in Los Angeles and raise awareness about police brutality and militarization.  
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