Will Wallace, Guest Columnist
March 5, 2018
Filed under Opinions, Politics
In recent years in the United States, capitalism has come under attack. The primary opposition or “solution” presented to capitalism is socialism. I am here to explain why socialism is not only impractical but utterly greed...
Annie Kong, News Reporter
March 5, 2018
Filed under News, Politics
On Feb. 9, nearly 3,000 athletes from around the world gathered in the Olympic stadium in Pyeongchang county, South Korea, for the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, kicking off 16 days of competition between 92 count...
Meimei Xu, News Reporter
March 5, 2018
Filed under News, Politics
On Jan. 7, actors and actresses appeared in all black at the 2018 Golden Globes awards in solidarity with the Time’s Up movement for victims of sexual assault. In her acceptance of the Cecil B. DeMille award, entertainment ic...
Ella Bradford, Columnist
March 5, 2018
Filed under Opinions, Politics
When my sister returned home from college for a brief family dinner for my father’s birthday, she began to fill the conversation with expressions of great extremism. In an achingly cliche turn of events, she had left home a t...
Meimei Xu, News Reporter
January 26, 2018
Filed under News, Politics
When the New York Times first reported rape allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein on Oct. 5, 2017, many felt that a new era had begun. Then, on Oct. 15, actress Alyssa Milano wrote on Twitter, “If you’ve been ...
Charlie Benedict, Opinions Editor
January 26, 2018
Filed under Opinions, Politics
I do not care about net neutrality. I hope it gets overturned, and here’s why: How many hours do you think US citizens alone have given social media companies for free? Billions upon unperceivable billions.
We capitulated to th...
Drew Norman, Columnist
January 26, 2018
Filed under Opinions, Politics
Last Sunday, the Golden Globes were a sea of black. Everywhere you looked, black tuxes, black dresses, and black heels populated the red carpet, were being talked about on every news network, and were being written about on ever...
Meimei Xu, News Reporter
December 1, 2017
Filed under News, Politics
It started with a simple action. To protest police brutality toward African Americans, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began sitting during the playing of the National Anthem in August of last year. On...
Charlie Benedict, Opinion Editor
November 3, 2017
Filed under Opinions, Politics
In late July, former Google engineer James Damore circulated “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” a contentious memo into an internal Google server, spurring left-wing fury over his alleged thought crimes.
The ...
Drew Norman, Columnist
September 29, 2017
Filed under Opinions, Politics
The Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program, commonly known as DACA, allows illegal immigrants brought into the United States as children a chance to apply for a renewable two-year escape from deportation and makes them elig...
Vicky Zhang, Guest Columnist
December 2, 2016
Filed under Opinions, Politics
Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton felt like a blow to my very foundation. I was not just shaken by the oversimplifying polls that claimed her victory, but had seemingly lost faith in the country. My drive to school on Wednesday...
Myles Hudson, Guest Writer
December 2, 2016
Filed under News, Opinions, Politics
The Republic is weeping.
By the time polling centers closed on November 8th, 61.4 million Americans—47.8% of voters—had cast their ballots for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Virtually every poll put Secretary...