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  • Coronership: America’s strangest elected office

    Almost no one questions the reasoning be­hind electing the President of the United States, barring the occasional person who thinks that America should be ruled by King Barack I. The president needs to be a repre­sentative of the people, and to ensure that the President’s first and foremost duty is to represent, we hold elections.…

  • Media Shmedia

    The 2016 presidential election has been broadcast across all media thanks to the technological advances of the new digi­tal age. News is no longer limited to print and television; social media outlets, like Twitter and Facebook, and global networks, like Buzzfeed and YouTube, are increasingly relevant. Traditional news is quickly losing touch with viewers—especially young…

  • The Hangover

    God, the last few weeks have sucked. Since November 8 – the day a quarter of Americans chose to put in the White House an ill-tempered, small-fingered proto-fascist with so little self-control his staff has to hide his phone to stanch his proclivity for digital diarrhea – the media has self-cannibalized, asking how a man…

  • Uz-what-istan?

    On September 2, 2016, Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan, suffered a brain hemorrhage and died. He was 78 when he died. Why does it matter that an aging ex­ecutive of a largely-irrelevant Caucasus country died? Because it has never happened before. After serving two years as head of the Soviet Bloc’s Uzbek Communist Party, Karimov…

  • Trump: The Final Blow to the Peñata

    Upon assuming the presidency in December 2012, Enrique Peña Nieto was to be the new face of Mexico. The youngest pres­ident ever to be elected and the husband of a soap opera star, Peña Nieto was a new hope for the PRI in its return to power. He started off his presidency initiating major reforms,…

  • Catch me in Kathmandu: Refugee Reflection

    As this election season has come to a close, there has been a great deal of talk about immigrants and refugees. This semester I have had the opportunity to immerse myself in the Tibetan refugee community. I have spent a total of seven weeks living with two different Tibetan families, one in Kathmandu and one…

  • A Late-Afternoon Chat with Vox’s Ezra Klein

    Interview by Grace Portelance and Sam Klein | Photo by Zeke Saucedo WUPR invited Ezra Klein, editor-in-chief of Vox, to address the Wash U community last month before the debate on our campus. Before his speech in Graham Chapel, editors-in-chief Grace Portelance and Sam Klein (no relation) sat down with Mr. Klein for an interview…