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(04/25/17 5:05am)
Cory Alpert is a fourth-year Russian and sociology student from Irmo, South Carolina. A member of the Omicron Delta Kappa leadership honor society, Alpert served on the USC Student Government Election Commission and ran for the position of student body president in 2016. Last week he received the Steven N. Swanger award, the second-highest honor available to USC undergraduate students.
(10/13/15 2:10am)
According to Bloomberg, an estimated $10 billion will be spent on the 2016 presidential race. From television ads to travel to staff, those campaigns become massive expenditures that cross the country in ways unimaginable by this country’s first politicians. Of course, no one is arguing that there is something inherently wrong with expensive operations — sometimes they can produce fantastic results as the legitimate voice of the people. However, this can often go horribly astray when money going into politics is not visible.
(09/10/15 10:38am)
If you attended Wednesday night's Carolina Clash debate, you’ll doubtless be aware of a few simple things. First, that the College Republicans’ chair can’t answer questions and is woefully unaware of her party’s policies.
(09/09/15 4:42am)
Donald Trump should not be considered a serious contender for the presidency. That being said, he could perhaps be the most influential change-maker in American partisan discourse of the last few decades. While certainly presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama have altered how the American body politic works, Trump stands capable of dismantling it. In an election cycle featuring two behemoths of political dynasties, the largest ego belongs to the candidate who said “I have never gone bankrupt” while filing for bankruptcy. What Trump is doing, in the end, isn’t about himself. Whether he knows it or not, he is poised to become the executioner of the far-right sector of American politics.
(08/31/15 3:02am)
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(03/16/15 1:18am)
Six months ago, the world erupted in anger over the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer.
(01/14/15 7:28am)
On Valentine’s Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a phone call from a BBC journalist asking what it felt like to have a death warrant issued against him.
(08/21/14 4:00am)
The U.S. is steeped in a history of diversity and conflict. We love to tell ourselves that we have a national epic of coming together to resolve our differences and become stronger for it.
(04/08/14 2:49am)
The United States of America was founded on the principle that all men are created equal. In time, we have come to understand this to mean that all Americans have certain basic, unalienable rights, chief amongst them being the right to voice their opinions. In the past year, we have seen two very striking moves against that right.
(03/17/14 3:40am)
Undoubtedly, the greatest civil rights issue of the millennial generation is that of equal rights for the LGBT community, following in the same vein as the struggles for equality of both women and African Americans in the 20th century. Julian Bond, National Chair of the NAACP, said recently reaffirmed his belief that “marriage is a civil right,” and that the movements are coupled by a defense of immutable characteristics: “and you cannot be discriminated in this country for who you are. To be certain, large strides have been made across the world, and in the United States with 17 states and the District of Columbia legalizing same-sex marriage, along with four (highly conservative) states having their unconstitutional laws stayed by federal judges under precedent set by Kitchen v. Herbert, in which the Supreme Court held that Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, upholding stays by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah by reaffirming their 1996 ruling in Romer v. Evans that “the Constitution protects individuals from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.”