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The internet has been a powerful organizing tool for political movements. It has been used to organize revolutions in the Middle East and protests around the world. Understandably, politicians have good reason to closely monitor sentiment online....
This August, Texas Governor and presidential hopeful Rick Perry stirred up controversy when he invited his fellow Texans, along with the nation’s governors, to join him in a mammoth prayer event at Houston’s Reliant Stadium. Dubbed “The...
Simmering With Greece “Pass this Bill,” urged President Barack Obama, warning that the alternative to his jobs plan was a crisis that would resemble Europe’s. In Sarah Palin’s letter to her Political Action Committee, she stressed the...
A stable, cooperative Pakistan is both a prerequisite for eradicating al-Qaeda and a key for NATO success in Afghanistan. As Michael Mullen has emphasized, “there is no solution in the region without Pakistan, and no stable future in the region...
The first Republican primary debate this year started with a catfight between Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney over their respective job creation records. The exchange not only raised the entertainment...
Illustration by Stephanie Trimboli Nelson Mandela spends little time in the public eye these days. Now in his nineties, his health has declined considerably, leaving a vacuum for an elder statesman to guide South Africa seventeen years after...
—-Illustration by Esther Hamburger—- As President Barack Obama prepares to run for a second presidential term in the face of a terribly sluggish economy, many disillusioned voters are questioning whether the United...
On August 5, 2011, the credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s downgraded the status of the United States’ long-term credit rating from AAA to AA+. Riots immediately broke out nationwide, Texas seceded from the Union, and California broke...
This September, the Campus Programming Council brought John Oliver to Washington University for their Fall Comedy Show. Oliver has been a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart since 2006 and is also well known for his Comedy Central...
Outside of a Georgia prison the night of September 21, nearly 500 people sat and hoped to hear something good, news that one man would live to see another day. They waited for hours to learn the outcome, only to hear at 11:08 P.M. that Troy...
