The Future of Civil Rights by Graycen Wood
Donald Trump possesses the ability to impact at least 40 years of history with his pick for the vacant seat on the United States Supreme Court. Last week Trump announced Neil Gorsuch, 49, as his...
View ArticleWhat’s Become of the New York Times? by Dr. Michael Grossman
The New York Times was, and still is, considered by many the paper of record. If the Times prints it, it must be true. But recently, the Times (and that other paper of record: the Washington Post) have...
View ArticleWhy Trump’s immigration restrictions are so drastic
By: Joshua Weber Over the past couple of weeks, a lot of attention has been drawn politically to the immigration policies which our current administration intends to implement. President Trump has...
View ArticleThe Government Needs Science
By: Morgan Rector The motivation for this blog comes from the circulating rumors regarding the Trump administration’s involvement in climate change. He has asked that Environmental Protection Agency...
View ArticleTrump Administration Faces Critical Issue Early On
By Francisco Telemaque ’20 Michael Thomas Flynn has resigned as the National Security Advisor as of February 13th, 2017. Now I’ll give some history. Michael Flynn has had multiple roles in the...
View ArticleChanges with Transgender Bathroom Use
by Abby Packard ’17 On February 22 the Trump administration took away federal guidelines giving transgender students the right to use public school restrooms thus giving this to the states to decide....
View ArticleThe Real Problem is Climate Change
by Olivia Ricciutti ’20 Climate Change has been the talk of the town for the past several years. Since the early 2000s, this topic has been talked about all over the news and social media, to name a...
View ArticleNeil Gorsuch: The next Justice in the Supreme Court
by Joe Palmquist ’20 It has been a year since Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia passed away, and President Donald Trump has chosen Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill his seat. He will officially...
View ArticleThe Implications with Russia from Recent U.S. Airstrikes on Syria
by Preston Myers ’20 On April 6, 2017, the United States had fired 59 missiles at a Syrian airfield that was said to be the place where the recent attacks of the chemical weapons had emerged from...
View ArticleTrump and Terrorism
by Ashley Gran ’18 The 45th President of the United States has made his views particularly clear on quite a few aspects of government, one of those being terrorism. President Obama had previously set...
View ArticleFake News And Presidential Approval Ratings
by Emma Wilson ’18, double-major in national security and foreign intelligence analysis and Spanish With the recent presidential inauguration this past January, I decided to look at Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleFrom Human Right to Privilege – the Shift in Healthcare under Republican...
by Rebecca Cooper ’18, double-major in accounting and mathematics While the first Republican-backed replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) failed to garner enough rightwing support, the second...
View ArticlePresidential Report: Trump and the Rescinding of DACA
by Emory Bandurka, Michael Yakim, Aaron Merriman, and Shannon Dillon Though the Donald Trump administration is still in its first year, the media cycle that surrounds the president is unceasing – it...
View ArticleA Week of Late Nights for White House Staff
By: Spencer Whyte, Jesse Wynn, Kolby Thompson, and Theo McKinnon While things are normally hectic at the White House, this week has been a particular struggle with public leaks on defaming issues....
View ArticlePre-emptive Attack, Reprisal Raid, or Peaceful Resolution?
by Shizuka Kuramitsu The U.S. president Donald Trump mentioned DPRK in his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19th[1]. Is it feasible to “totally destroy North Korea” as...
View ArticleThose Who Ignore History Are Doomed to Repeat It
by Zach Kaplan Following World War II, the United States had a very clear foreign policy: oppose anything that benefitted the Soviet Union and communism. This policy (which came to be known as...
View ArticleWill Paul Manafort Cost Trump Control of Foreign Affairs?
By: Spencer Whyte The power to control foreign policy has long been singularly enjoyed by the President. However, recent sanctions against Russia and the shocking investigation of Paul Manafort may...
View ArticlePresident Trump’s War of Words
by Nick Kalis Since President Donald Trump took office in January, his presidency has been nothing short of controversial. Everything from his use of social media to amplify tense situations, to...
View ArticleDonald Trump Over the Past Week
By Joseph Palmquist The worst storm since 1928 just destroyed Puerto Rico. Not only was hurricane Maria a category five storm, but it was the tenth largest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history. With...
View ArticleThe State Department of the Future
By Nate Aikins When Donald Trump won the presidency last November, he promised to “drain the swamp”, and we started to see glimpses of this by appointing cabinet members that like him, had no prior...
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