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Politics

What We Know About the Kashmir Crisis

Connor Maloney, Staff Writer | March 1, 2019

   The border between India and Pakistan, particularly the Himalayan region of Kashmir, has been a cause of several conflicts between the two countries since the Partition of British India in 1947. India and Pakistan have fought three wars in the past...

Theresa May continues to deliberate on Brexit

Brexit brings more confusion

Jake Neuffer, Editor-in-Chief | January 22, 2019

Theresa May survived a no-confidence vote from her government on Wednesday, which would have forced her to resign from her position as Prime Minister. Leader of the ongoing Brexit, May’s continued leadership will see further deliberation and confusion...

What Trump’s Shutdown Means for the Future of American Democracy

Emily Bach | January 21, 2019

  Throughout the government shutdown, Trump has repeatedly bashed Democratic leaders for their inability to compromise on border security. The shutdown, fueled primarily by Trump’s demands for funding for a border wall, has now reached a...

Nancy Pelosi wins Speaker of the House

Nancy Pelosi wins Speaker of the House

Sahithi Jammulamadaka, Editor-in-Chief | January 18, 2019

   On Jan. 3, Nancy Pelosi became the Speaker of the House by two hundred and twenty votes against Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House minority leader in the one hundred and sixteenth Congress. She has been the only woman speaker of the House winning...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, along with her fellow representatives, being sworn into Congress

New Congress, New America?

annabelle rosse, Staff Writer | January 18, 2019

On Nov. 6, 2018, the American people made their voices heard at the election booths. In result, on Jan. 3, 2019, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives along with the Republican-controlled Senate were sworn in. Soon after, Nancy Pelosi, a representative...

Students at Columbia University in New York City protest the Kavanaugh nomination

The Republicans now control all branches of the US government

Jake Neuffer, Editor-in-Chief | October 9, 2018

On Saturday, October 6, Republicans successfully voted Brett Kavanaugh in to the Supreme Court of the United States. The confirmation passed after a dramatic week of theatrics and hearings, much of it surrounding a few key swing votes. Susan Collins,...

USMCA

Sahithi Jammulamadaka, Editor-in-Chief | October 9, 2018

   USMCA, the new NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), is the United States Mexico and Canada trade agreement. According to Trump, NAFTA was “the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere” and turned it into “a wonderful new trade deal”...

First-hand account of the March for Our Lives

aubrey harrell, Editorial Board | April 23, 2018

  On March 24, thousands from all over the United States came together in Washington DC to take a stand against gun violence. As of late, I have come to the realization that my peers and I are highly capable of making a lasting impact and causing...

March for our Lives

Ashley Shepard, Staff Writer | April 4, 2018

On March 24, the kids and families of March For Our Lives took to the streets of Washington DC to demand that their lives and safety become a priority and that we end gun violence and mass shootings in our schools. Student organizers are planning...

Nukes aren’t terrible

Jake Neuffer, Editor-in-Chief | March 23, 2018

The threat of nuclear war hasn’t been so prominent in the national consciousness since the fall of the Berlin Wall. But Donald Trump’s tweet, where he cleverly uses the threat of nuclear war to imply that Kim Jong Un has an erectile dysfunction, has...

Trump fires Tillerson

Trump fires Tillerson

Sahithi Jammulamadaka, Editor-in-Chief | March 23, 2018

`On Tuesday March 13th, President Donald Trump announced that he fired his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. He will be nominating the CIA director Mike Pompeo as his successor, replacing his top diplomat during a time of a potential sit down between...

Czar of the NRA

Ashley Shepard, Staff Writer | March 14, 2018

A day after the Parkland Shooting, the CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA), Wayne LaPierre, has already turned this tragedy into a way to pit the american people against one another. In his statement, LaPierre began to slander democrats, claiming...

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