Now that Congress is back in session, the first item on the agenda is to avoid another recession by softening the ramifications of looming tax increases and spending cuts. The second order of business is the unsustainable long-run debt trajectory. Whenever the debt trajectory is discussed, various versions of the same grand bargain are always brought up. Though even if [...]
As a current events enthusiast with a special affinity for fiscal policy, I’ve come across the semi comical phrase “fiscal cliff” quite a few times over the past several months. Odds are this particular term will continue to trend in weeks to come, especially as President Obama and congressional leaders, in a rare display of bipartisanship, try to avoid the [...]
By: Lalita Clozel Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks, escaped British house arrest this June to take shelter in the embassy of Ecuador, which has since then granted him political asylum. But since the U.K. will not allow him safe passage, Assange is now forced to wait inside the embassy indefinitely. These grave developments have been covered by [...]
If you defend individual liberty in the corporate boardroom and the private bedroom alike it was hard to “get fired up and ready to go” to the polls for either major candidate today. If you believe a society that universally respects individual rights is efficient and ethical, then Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate, is the only intellectually and morally [...]
Last Thursday, Penn College Republicans showed 2016: Obama’s America, Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary inspired by his book The Roots of Obama’s Rage. The showing was part of Penn Political Action Week, a weeklong series of meetings, speeches and movies leading up to the election. Aggressive negative campaign tactics made an unexpected appearance. 2016 is not a disinterested exploration of Obama’s [...]
Christopher Lu is President Obama’s Cabinet Secretary, co-chair of the Executive Office of the President, and co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He previously served as executive director of the Obama-Biden Transition Project; a legislative director and chief of staff to then-Senator Obama; and deputy chief counsel to the Democrats on the House Oversight [...]
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