Category / 2016 / Election 2016
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…