“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity.” Yes, it truly is the worst of times when this cliché applies so aptly. Over the past two months, the streets of France have been bursting at the seams: Three and a half million French people have taken to the streets protesting President Nicolas Sarkozy’s…
President Barack Obama appeared this past Wednesday on Jon Stewart’s, The Daily Show as part of Stewart’s weeklong special in Washington leading up to the mid term elections (or perhaps better described on The Daily Show website as his “MIDTERM TEAPARTY GANZA”). This coverage is leading up to his much-hyped “Rally to Restore Sanity,” which is scheduled to kick off [...]
There’s been much ado about the anti-incumbent fervor that has been ripping through states, shaking up the primaries, and all the while providing us with a few good laughs courtesy of Christine O’Donnell and Alvin Greene. We’ve seen a 3-term credentialed conservative ousted from his post due to a single vote, the leader of the Democratic majority hanging on for dear life, [...]
When people describe campuses as “bubbles” and “ivory towers,” they aren’t kidding and they aren’t (entirely) wrong. In my coursework, for example, I very often discuss the history of history, which I consider quite important. Penn’s University Council even has a Committee on Committees. Perhaps the only profession as self-referential and introspective as academia is political punditry – so it [...]
It is easy to say that a nuclear-free world is a goal we should all work to attain. But how can we take the lead in nuclear disarmament without compromising our security? As it turns out, a recent Air Force paper suggests that we may be able to do both with drastic unilateral stockpile cuts, and even provides a magic number to aim for.
As Luke Hassall pointed out, there is not much coverage in the US regarding the release of the Iraq War Logs. However, I was pleased to see that across the Atlantic, there are many news sources digging deep. The biggest issues that appear to have come out of the leak thus far is the handing over of prisoners by US [...]
The 2010 New York gubernatorial election has made its fair share of headlines, although not in the traditional fashion. One need look no further than Republican candidate Carl Paladino for a deluge of scandal: anti-gay remarks, a 10-year-old child from an extramarital affair, and a slew of racist and pornographic emails that even contained a video of bestiality. And now [...]
En route to a mid morning brunch at Metropolitan Bakery, I passed a group of people dancing in matching red outfits with picket signs. Although I was too far away to hear what they were singing, I knew the tune very distinctively – Lady Gaga’s “Telephone.” As I got closer, the lyrics went something like “Stop fighting stop fighting we [...]
Today something fairly important took place. Yet to the millions of people whose major or entire source of news are the big media companies, you may not have noticed it. Today Wikileaks released a massive cache of documents on the war in Iraq. The documents, whose authenticity is not being strongly challenged, reveal extensive evidence of the kind of abuses [...]
The Alliance of Collegiate Editors interviews Mark Rudd, former member of the Weather Underground and current anti-war activist.
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