Head to head: Should Shakespeare stay in school?
To teach or not to teach Shakespeare? That is the question.
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To teach or not to teach Shakespeare? That is the question.
Inevitably, the 1994 crime bill came up at Thursday’s Democratic debate in Brooklyn. While Hillary Clinton did her best to make everyone remember that it was her husband who actually signed the bill into law, she can’t erase the fact that she supported it at the time. Nor can Sen. Bernie Sanders, who voted for the law, hide that by deflecting the questioning back to Clinton’s astoundingly racist 1996 defense of it.
In America, sex education can range from excellent to nonexistent, depending on where you live. Because there is no federal regulation on sex ed in schools, states get to choose whether or not to mandate it and what information to provide.
At the beginning of the 2016 primary season, there was much ado about the Democratic debate schedule. Sanders and O'Malley supporters complained that the limited number of debates, frequently placed on nights when no one would be watching, was catering to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. For Sen. Sanders, it was an attempt by the Democratic establishment to keep Hillary from stumbling by not allowing her to talk too much. For O'Malley, it was clearly an attempt to keep his struggling campaign in the dark so it would prevent no challenge to her.
In the course of the 2016 slog towards the White House, two things have begun to happen every time there’s a terror attack here or abroad. First, Obama releases a statement warning America to avoid Islamophobia. Then, the GOP slams him for refusing to condemn radical Islam. Following the terror attacks in Brussels and Pakistan and the admittedly cavalier-sounding response from Obama, the cycle repeats itself again. Particularly, Sen. Ted Cruz had sharp words for Obama: “We don’t need another lecture on Islamophobia.”
Mental illness is a hot topic in political debate — which might be a good thing, given that our mental healthcare system is critically flawed and in dire need of legislative correction. However, most of the politicians, pundits and general public discussing it have no idea what they’re talking about.
On Sunday morning, when my alarm clock rang to signal the de facto end of my spring break, my internal clock was still pretty sure it was 6 a.m., a time of day otherwise known to college students as “too early to be awake.” My phone, on the other hand, had switched dutifully to daylight saving time and was reading the very slightly more reasonable hour of 7 a.m.: Time to get up and make the drive back to school. The dissonance was, as it always is, momentarily confusing, but it resolves itself more quickly every year.
Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been a partisan point of contention for years. Democrats want it closed. Republicans want it open. Obama made closing it a plank in his platform when he was first elected in 2008, and Romney struck back at his position in 2012. On Feb. 23, the issue skyrocketed back into the news when Obama handed over a closure plan to Congress — in the last year of his presidency.
In the Monday paper, Ben Turner criticized Donald Trump's racist "southern strategy," and rightfully so. It's been observed ever since "The Donald" joined the race for the White House that he brings with him a shadow of racism, nationalism and xenophobia that is unbecoming of American politics. And on Tuesday, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan had some harsh words for the Republican front-runner about his failure to denounce former KKK leader, David Duke, in interviews this weekend.
In 2012, then-Congressman of Missouri Todd Akin infamously voiced the opinion that when women were "legitimately" raped, our bodies had ways to "shut that whole thing down." There was wide outrage over the issue, as well there should have been. It seemed to me at the time that it must be obvious that this was untrue — human genitals aren't like ducks', we haven't evolved corkscrewed vaginas to keep out the semen of unwanted mates.
Until 2015, the 2012 GOP primaries seemed legendarily nasty. There was blood drawn from all sides, and by the time Mitt Romney made it through the mud to the general election, the Obama team didn’t have any digging at all to do for the weak points in his armor and the inconsistencies in his record. The Republicans tore each other to shreds before they even had a horse in the big race.
Since 9/11, our nation has been hyper-vigilant about our national security, and understandably so. We signed anti-terror legislation into law in a burst of protective patriotism, and for many years failed to consider the consequences.
Presidential candidates are often career politicians, so it's not infrequent that they hail from our legislative branch.After all, those positions comprise most of the elected positions in the federal government. However, these candidates rarely make it to the presidency: since 1913, only three presidents have emerged from the U.S. Senate, the most recent example being Barack Obama, formerly an Illinois legislator, who won the 2008 race for the White House over Arizona fellow senator John McCain.
At Saturday night’s Republican debate, moderators brought up waterboarding, provoking pro-torture responses from the candidates that were as characteristic as they were horrifying.
From Andrew Johnson, who ran a successful tailor shop, to George H.W. Bush, the owner of an oil development company, America has had its share of businessmen make it to the highest elected office in the land. This election cycle, there are two candidates running who hail from the world of business: Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump.
As of January of this year, the U.S. Congress has an approval rating of 16 percent. Americans are understandably frustrated with the mess our legislative branch has become. Regardless of party affiliation, roughly 80 percent of us can admit that the partisan gridlock that has overcome Washington is a problem.
Recently, in Trump news, we have heard about how he has forfeited his place on the debate stage, joked about testing the loyalty of his followers by shooting someone and been endorsed by none other than the original far-right nonsense factory, Sarah Palin. He has accrued a genuinely hilarious slew of endorsements, actually. Rounding out the pack are none other than Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin, everyone’s favorite crazed foreign leaders.
In these first few weeks of the spring semester, we begin to depart from the season to apply for summer internships you actually want in favor of entering the season of scraping the bottom of the barrel for whatever gopher job will still take on your resume. For many of the fields that college trains us for, at least one internship will be a vital piece of future job applications — it’s a career choice the same way eating food is a lifestyle choice.
Recently, Donald Trump has found himself at the center of another debate about political correctness. But this time, surprisingly, he is the victim, rather than the perpetrator.
As most people know, the American prison system has some real problems. In many ways, our prisons are inhumane, inefficient and unjust, and in few cases is that as blindingly obvious as in the use of solitary confinement.