Month / November 30, 2015
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Who Can Change FIFA?
FIFA has finally begun to wake up after a nightmare over the summer, and it looks like change is just around the corner. Following multiple scandals over the summer in which nine current and former members of FIFA were accused and indicted on bribery charges, and Swiss authorities conducted a separate investigation into more than…
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A Lack of Healthcare Mobility in the Gaza Strip
A baby born in Israel will live, on average, ten years longer than one born in Palestine. The mother of the baby birthed in Israel is four times less likely to pass away during childbirth than the Palestinian mother, and the Israeli-born baby is five times less likely to die before he turns one. The…
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When Piyush Met Bobby
Piyush Jindal is every South Asian immigrant parent’s dream. After graduating from Brown University at the age of twenty, he was not only accepted to Harvard Medical School, but also to Yale Law School. He ended up studying at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and later went on to become the governor of Louisiana. His…
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Two Candidates Sell Themselves
After the second GOP debate, a familiar, hairpiece-topped face led the newest CNN poll. Behind blustery billionaire Donald Trump, however, Carly Fiorina (the former CEO of Hewlett Packard) managed to climb into second place. Fourteen months from the election, no poll offers more than a quick glance at the feelings of voters. However, those voters…
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Politician Isn’t a Bad Word
It’s sad that it’s come to this. The 2016 presidential election is still over a year away, but the candidates vying for the nomination of each major party have gone through what has been anything but a typical primary process. It’s the election year of the anti-politician. This phenomenon is restricted to the Republican side,…
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Sanctuary Cities
The left is currently in an uproar over the case of Kim Davis, a Kentucky clerk who refused to issue a marriage license to a gay couple as an act of civil disobedience. Critics have rightly pointed out that as an employee of the government, Davis has no right to deny licenses based on her…
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DNC Rigs Debates for Clinton Victory
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) under chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has decided to hold a total of six primary debates, compared to the Republican’s eleven. The DNC sponsored just as few in 2008, but in previous years the majority of debates were unsanctioned events (sponsored by an organization other than the DNC), which in 2008, together…
