Archive | Columns
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Column: The hard-earned rewards of Teach for America
It was around this time last year that I was busily stapling up Teach For America flyers around American U.’s campus and tweeting statistics about the achievement gap on the hour to advertise for the final TFA application deadline.
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Column: Abolish the Electoral College
A new poll from Gallup confirms once again the widespread support for amending the Constitution to provide for presidential election by popular vote. For those unacquainted with the issue, in the United States, the president is not elected by direct popular vote.
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Column: Obama’s contraception mandate violates the First Amendment
Politics in America have officially become destructive. Polarization and heated political rhetoric may have been unpleasant last year, but in 2012, the brute ambition of the Machiavellian prince has emerged roaring from behind the curtain, and he’s ready to destroy.
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Column: China’s Fifty Cent Party
When Chinese citizens express their opinions through online outlets, they write in the presence of a state-appointed cyber police force.
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Column: The ballot or the bank
At the heart of democracy lies the fundamental notion that every citizen has an equal voice in society. This value, which began centuries ago, continues today as the cornerstone of the United States government. But is the democracy that we cherish truly a reality?
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Column: Sound the horn
On Friday, February 2, the United Nations declared an end to the famine in the Horn of Africa that killed tens of thousands of people in the last nine months. With an unstable political situation and 2.
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Column: Staying friends after a break up
Whether you dated them or it was just a fling, you broke up, whether you liked it or not. And it seems like most breakups go the same way: you swear you’ll be friends and that not even your split or all the hard feelings associated with it will get in the way of that.
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Column: Debate frenzy
Adrenaline-pumping music pulses in the background. Cameras pan around the room, capturing the gaudy red, white and blue graphics projected on the walls, zooming in and out on the applauding audience, sweeping across the candidates as if running down a high-five line, the same shot used to build excit...
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Column: Romney campaign growing stronger
With two wins now under his belt, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took 46 percent of the vote in Tuesday's Florida Republican primary. That dealt a large blow to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's campaign, despite a strong win for Gingrich in South Carolina's primary.