Playing Politics: Liberals should commit to the DNC to enact change
"Get involved locally. Support competent leadership nationally."
You Do Uterus: Tuesday’s elections brought hope and identity to the forefront
The promise of America has always been that anyone, regardless of any facet of their identity, can achieve anything that they are willing to work for.
COUNTERPOINT: Students could reap long-term benefits from GOP tax plan
But the entirety of the tax plan, all things considered, doesn’t appear as bad as it’s occasionally been made out to be.
POINT: GOP tax plan threatens college students’ financial futures
The GOP’s tax plan spells bad news for students and universities, and anyone with an interest in the future of our nation’s higher education should be concerned.
Cross Section: Gun control is obstructed by numbness to violence
"The shooting that took place in Texas continues to disturb and devastate as more intimate layers of the tragedy are peeled back and revealed."
The Spectrum: Appreciate the skills of students of other majors
The world thrives on diversity and improvement, and if the opposing fields were as easy or irrelevant as we have portrayed them to be in social media or daily conversation, then they would have ceased to exist several years ago.
Mueller investigation will yield important change
It’s a turbulent world. Sexual assault allegations are shaking down megastars in the wake of a storm of Harvey Weinstein allegations. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is now speaking as a Confederate-sympathizing Civil War historian (who knew?). Saturday Night Live thought it could disappear for two weeks and placate me with David S. […]
You Do Uterus: On fundamentals like abortion, we can’t ‘agree to disagree’
Research repeatedly shows that restrictions and both legal and economic barriers to abortion, in their myriad forms, don’t affect the rate at which abortions occur.
COUNTERPOINT: The term “fake news” has been reduced to a dog whistle
Facebook, Twitter and Google testified before Congress on Tuesday about the thousands of fake accounts on their platforms that spewed misinformation throughout the 2016 election. The issue of Russian information warfare and political propaganda has been closely tied, in the public imagination, with the issue of “fake news” — fake stories distributed to unwitting American […]
POINT: “Fake news” is a bigger problem than we think
With news of an indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a guilty plea from former Trump foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos for lying to the FBI, it seems like the horror story of the 2016 presidential election just won’t stop. In response to resurfaced allegations of the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia […]