Former President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, was a larger than life figure who evoked much controversy because of his unorthodox approach to governance. He has been characterized as “populist,” “idealist,” “dictator,” and “savior,” but attempting to cast a value judgment of his regime is an empty task precisely because of his polarizing effect. The US enjoyed criticizing him extensively because [...]
By: Paul Maneri In the aftermath of Barack Obama’s victory in last year’s Presidential Election, much of the political commentary from both sides of the aisle has focused on the President’s significant advantage with minority voters. The “Latino Vote”, in particular, has garnered a great deal of attention from party leaders and pollsters. Several prominent Republicans have made clear their [...]
Michael Castle served as the Governor of Delaware from 1985 to 1992 and the U.S. Representative for Delaware’s at-large Congressional district from 1993 to 2011. Your campaign website mentions that you have helped make several improvements in education policy including the areas of early childhood education and school food nutrition. Do you plan to continue working towards education reform? If [...]
By: Casey Anderson Two states in the United States recently passed measures legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. While this is treated as a somewhat comical situation in the U.S., it has unintended ramifications for foreign policy in Latin America with regards to the war on drugs. The United States has historically shaped drug policy in Latin America, ensuring the [...]
By: Gabriel Delaney Comprehensive immigration reform is a policy accomplishment that has eluded President Obama thus far in his presidency. The whole of Congress has stalled on the issue, leaving behind more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in a state of quasi-American citizenship that neither grants them a right to a free life nor holds them accountable for paying into [...]
By: Anthony Cruz Under the leadership of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela has seen itself become a more prominent (and often controversial) participant in the international community. In this capacity, Venezuela has also become more of a nuisance to American foreign policy, forging relations with many states that have records of acting as adversaries toward Washington. Furthermore, Chavez has branded himself a [...]
By: Brian Liu Despite China’s recent economic success, social and economic problems lie just beyond the horizon. These issues include an unsustainable economic model, a failed One-Child policy, and political corruption. The burden of these problems now falls into the lap of Xi Jinping, China’s newly selected leader of the executive politburo committee. In order to remedy such problems, the [...]
By: Tomas Piedrahita On October 31, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the oral arguments for two cases involving the use of drug-sniffing dogs. At the heart of these cases, Florida v. Harris and Florida v. Jardines, is the Fourth Amendment, also know as the constitutional “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, [...]
By: Raquel MacGregor After hearing Romney’s “I don’t want to go down the path to Spain” comment during the first U.S. 2012 presidential debate, I had to laugh at the irony of my choice of Seville, Spain for my semester abroad. It seems I couldn’t have picked a worse time to live in Spain. Poverty and unemployment are ubiquitous, there [...]
By: Benjamin Droz I am pretty certain that author Greg Gutfeld would hate nothing more than for me to begin a review of his latest book, The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage, with a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche, but unfortunately, such a quote could not be more applicable. Nietzsche once wrote, [...]
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