Panelists discuss Obama’s State of the Union address
President Barack Obama discussed a liberal economic approach and free tuition for community college students.
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USC students react to Obama’s push for free community college
States that agree to this proposal must fund one quarter of the tuition.
Free college plan ignores important issues
Obama’s proposal for free two-year college fails to consider other ways to spend $60 billion.
White House releases sexual assault prevention guidelines
The proposal is tailored toward sexual assault cases on college campuses.
Executive orders a vital step towards equal pay
It was Equal Pay Day. And instead of paying attention during an international relations lecture, I was passionately retweeting the White House. “‘There are commentators out there saying that the pay gap doesn’t even exist … It’s not a myth, it’s math.’ — President Obama #FairFutureNow,” tweeted President Barack Obama. President Barack Obama signed […]
Q&A Two USC students intern at the White House
Omeed Anvar and Simon Huang both credited their professors for motivating them.
GOP should acknowledge ACA success
Several days ago, a survey by the Associated Press in Time Magazine found support for President Barack Obama’s signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, at 26 percent (its lowest in its four-year lifetime). The national media howled, including this excerpt from a Fox News article: “President Obama is struggling to stop the steady slide […]
Obama goes viral, conservatives sickened
President Barack Obama made headlines Tuesday when he appeared for a short mock interview on comedian Zach Galifianakis’ web series “Between Two Ferns,” taking the opportunity to promote the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, the health care law that was the signature legislative accomplishment of his first term. Both Obama and Galifianakis took joking shots […]
Senate wrong to block civil rights nominee Debo Adegbile
According to every Republican, as well as seven politically weak Democrats in the Senate, defending an African American man from the death penalty is enough to disqualify someone from leading the civil rights division of the United States Justice Department. Yesterday, the Senate voted 52 to 47 to prevent moving to a final vote on […]
United States must learn from Afghanistan failure
President Barack Obama is about to join Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Lord Auckland and Leonid Brezhnev in a very exclusive club that only adds a new member every few decades: world leaders who have tried and failed to successfully invade and reshape Afghanistan, referred to in the history books as “the graveyard of empires.” […]