Tuesday marks the biggest day of the GOP primary season when 13 states and American Samoa vote. Campaigns are already at work spinning expectations to prevent media reports of underperforming. With most […]
Get Ready: Super Tuesday Is Approaching
Billionaires of Beijing
Last December, the International Monetary Fund released the numbers that shook our perspective on the global economy. It was official: in terms of real purchasing power, China had usurped America’s seat on […]
A Dent in Trump’s Crown?
Last night was the last Republican debate before Super Tuesday, and the results make Donald Trump’s coronation as the Republican nominee look a little less inevitable. Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio […]
Retract or Resign: A Message to the DP
The Statesman considers the Daily Pennsylvanian‘s recent mistake – using the poor audio of a recording of Marco Rubio to misquote his statements and damage both the Rubio and Cruz campaigns – […]
Liberals Appropriate Christianity
After spending just a few moments on a college campus or scrolling through a Twitter timeline, it’s easy to pick up the term “cultural appropriation.” Cultural appropriation is generally defined as the […]
The Race Takes Shape in South Carolina, Nevada
The third election night of the 2016 election cycle has come and gone with minimal contest for the winners, Clinton in Nevada and Trump in South Carolina. Nevada was a much clearer […]
When Caitlyn Came to Penn
Caitlyn – formerly Bruce – Jenner is always a bit of a media spectacle, and it comes as no surprise that the former athlete and reality TV star drew hundreds of students during […]
It’s Not Me, It’s EU
Last Thursday, Professor Jan-Werner Müller of the Politics Department at Princeton echoed a statement that resounds through the ranks of EU politicians and academics alike. Something deep, dark, and authoritarian is brewing […]
Republicans Must Use Trump’s Tactics Against Him
This election season has been far from conventional. Often, when the political pundits have predicted something to happen, exactly the opposite has happened. This is especially pertinent in relation to the rise […]
Let’s Talk About Cultural Competence
Cultural competence is not an artifact of social justice. Its first true manifestation – the definition of cultural competence as “an ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures, particularly in […]
Conservative Conservation
You know, I just hate clean air. Polluting oceans and rivers happens to be a great pastime of mine, and gosh those elephants? Let’s just get rid of them. Right. That’s totally […]
Love is NOT An Open Door
On February 11, 2016, Penn’s 34th Street Magazine published an article titled “Love is an Open Door: Think being in a relationship is hard? Try being in two.” The article’s author, Syra […]
