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(11/24/16 5:05pm)
Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season, a respite from the mundaneness of the working world and a welcome of the approach of the winter season. Today, millions of families gather at the dinner table to give thanks, celebrate each other and stuff themselves with home-cooked meals. Above all others, one food reigns supreme this day of the year: turkey.
(11/15/16 11:21pm)
With the ascendance of a populist demagogue to the White House throne, there seems to be a deep, underlying change in the fabric of the American ethos. How, Democratic voters ask themselves, could such a fear-mongering, homophobic, racist, vitriol-spewing orange man so easily jump to the highest rung of the American political ladder? I, like the majority of Americans, was disappointed by the outcome my country chose a week ago, but I will not so easily dismiss the misgivings of middle-class America as Hillary supporters have taken to doing since watching their candidate fall.
(11/05/16 3:54am)
It has been over a year since Donald Trump castigated Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio for speaking Spanish to interviewers, and one bilingual politician remains on the campaign trail: Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine. “Todos somos americanos," we are all Americans, Kaine declared Thursday night in a speech delivered entirely in Spanish: A feat few in his position could achieve, but one that will likely earn him grief. In recent times, being a bilingual politician has become an attack point for critics, but the ability to communicate in another language is a powerful asset for our country’s leaders.
(10/27/16 1:18am)
In June 2015, hedge-fund manager John Paulson pledged $400 million to Harvard University to expand the school’s engineering college and rename it in his honor. The year prior, it received an additional $350 million gift from alumnus Gerald Chan for its school of public health. Few would question the generosity or goodwill of either donor after such charitable acts. However, as altruistic and inspiring as these enormous donations may be, they demonstrate a serious, growing trend in higher education that perpetuates inequality in the United States.
(10/19/16 11:36pm)
Both on the national and the local level, perhaps the defining characteristic of the Republican platform this election cycle has been an appeal to fear: fear of a weakening America, fear of free trade, fear of certain religions, fear for homeland security. The proposed solutions are as outlandish as the problems they aim to solve, from high-tariff protectionism to refusing immigrants on the basis of religion. On careful examination, they just don't hold water.
(10/17/16 12:27am)
It might be attractive to protect local industries, but to stifle free trade is to stifle progress and economic growth — two of the focal points of this year’s election. As both candidates promise an America rich in jobs, they fail to articulate to the American public the economic realities of their anti-free-trade agendas, which will only serve to undermine the economy and workforce, not benefit them.
(09/22/16 2:35am)
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton may face dismal approval ratings, but both should be glad they don’t quite inspire the ire that Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican who struggles to garner support from a quarter of his red state, does. A native of Kansas City, I wholeheartedly fall into the other three-fourths, and seeing Trump appoint Gov. Brownback as one of his advisors should raise serious concern for anyone familiar with the conservative catastrophe that has become my home state.