Faculty panel tackles how Donald Trump became President Elect A hundred-person lecture hall on the third floor of Bentley Hall overflowed with attendees who filled the desks and sat in the aisles late Tuesday afternoon for an event called “Understanding the 2016 Election.” The faculty panel was hosted by Katherine Jellison, chairperson of the history department. The discussion was largely intellectual, with a strong historical basis for many arguments … Read More
Opinion: Trump’s praise of Putin is another nail in his campaign’s coffin It’s hard to believe Donald Trump is capable of admiring someone other than himself. It’s even harder to believe one of the people he’s most publicly and recently given a big thumbs up to is Vladimir Putin, Russian president and Kremlin frontman. Putin has a remarkably high approval rating at 83 percent, according to a March Washington Post article. At … Read More
From emails to espionage: fact checking the final debate The last debate of the presidential election, though more policy-driven than previous ones, still contained a variety of character attacks. From Supreme Court nominations to gun control, from emails to Russian espionage, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump butted heads over and made assertions in regard to many hot-button issues. Here are the final fact checks: Clinton: Trump used illegal immigrants … Read More
Opinion: Neither candidates’ foreign policy plan is perfect, but Clinton’s is more stable Before meeting with President Obama at the ASEAN summit in Laos, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte called the American commander-in-chief a “son of a whore.” Duterte was referring to Obama’s criticism of his vigilante anti-drug campaign, which allows citizens in the Philippines to shoot and kill any person they suspect of being a drug dealer or user, with total immunity. The … Read More
Opinion: U.S. mass media failed on Panama Papers The mainstream media are not saying too much about the Panama Papers, which should be no surprise to anyone. The mainstream media tend to sway away from relevant political news abroad. However, when you have various corporations, politicians, athletes and other big-name individuals hiding money, it’s a big deal. The only real political hit thus far came yesterday, when the … Read More
