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Column: The climate we ask for
As Americans, we constantly congratulate ourselves on our spirit of innovation. Yet, we give our government no incentive to be forward thinking about important long-term problems like climate change.
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Editorial: Popularity pays
A recent study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that students who are popular in high school are more financially successful later in life, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday.
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Column: Arrest of Green Party candidates calls out problems in elections
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and vice presidential candidate Cheri Honkala were arrested Oct. 16, the night of the second presidential debate. Complying peacefully, they were charged with disorderly conduct after they were refused entry into Hofstra U.
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Editorial: U.S. should engage in more collaborative foreign policy
While former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama squabbled over Libyan diplomacy and the U.S.’s presence in Syria, the premise of their arguments were off base. As Romney spoke of the U.S.
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Column: Before sitting under the needle, think through that tattoo
Back when I was a freshman — long ago, at a university far, far away — I got the only tattoo I’ve ever regretted. Breaking up with a tattoo is harder, and more expensive, than dumping a live-in significant other.
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Editorial: Romney’s case to repeal
“If a mandate was the solution, we could try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody buy a house,” President Obama said in 2008, arguing against legally requiring individuals to buy health insurance.
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Editorial: Obama, Romney fail to make distinctions
Monday night, President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney met at Lynn U. in Boca Raton, Fla. for the third and final presidential debate of the 2012 election season. The debate, moderated by CBS’s Bob Scheiffer, focused on foreign policy.
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Column: The natural gas debate
On New Year’s Day 2009, a residential drinking water well in Dimock, Pennsylvania, exploded without warning.
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Column: Antagonists anonymous
On Oct. 12, Gawker writer Adrian Chen published a lengthy article outing 49-year-old Michael Brutsch as the infamous Reddit troll and moderator Violentacrez, who created, contributed to or moderated threads such as “Chokeabitch,” “Rapebait,” “Hitler,” “Jewmeria,” “Beatingwomen” an...