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March 28 , 2024

Senate Republicans gamble with Merrick Garland nomination

On March 16, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland was appointed to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat in the Supreme Court. Analysts have remarked that Garland’s judicial his...

Establishment endorsements fail to sway jaded voters in 2016 race

The Republican Party is going insane. The Quinnipiac University Poll released on Thursday shows that Trump leads 44 percent to Rubio’s 28 percent here in Florida, the establishment favorite’s home st...

Politicians shouldn’t underestimate youth vote

As I pointed out in my last column, although Bernie Sanders had much more momentum heading into the Iowa caucuses than initially anticipated, he was still an underdog, with FiveThirtyEight giving Sa...

Ideological presidential race nudges centrists out of spotlight

In September, I wrote a column predicting that Martin O’Malley would be the most competitive challenger to Hillary Clinton in the democratic primary. The pattern of recent presidential primaries has...

Celebrities not necessarily qualified for politics

Back in September, I wrote a column about Kanye’s V.M.A. announcement that he will run for president. At the time, the announcement may have seemed like a joke or just a campaign to increase his celeb...

US leaders need to address consequences of climate change

While campus was shut down for winter break, my complaints about cold weather were met with reprimands from angry friends and family who had unhappily trucked through a Chicago winter for much longer ...

Capable candidates of both parties should welcome scrutiny

To get it out of the way and to be fair, liberal media bias is real. The complaints in recent weeks have mostly been anecdotal, but quantitative studies prove it. A 2005 study from the Quarterly Journ...

China needs smarter population policies

Last Thursday, Chinese authorities announced changes to their infamous one-child policy, which has been in place for the past 35 years. Now, Chinese couples will be allowed to have two children withou...

Don’t overlook local issues when giving back

This time of the year, Greek life philanthropies are in full swing. Service days like Hurricanes Help the Hometown are celebrated, Breast Cancer Awareness Month paints the campus pink and the holida...

So-called farmers’ market fails to live up to its name

Ah, ’tis the season of the return of the farmers’ market. I see girls strutting around campus with “handcrafted” arepas, boys sipping on their fresh-squeezed juices and professors browsing the “arti...

Annie Cappetta