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Students on the Margin
Senior Trinidy Combs would like to be more involved on campus, but she finds it hard to be engaged in the Washington University community while working 22 hours a week at an off-campus job. On top of taking out $17,500 in student loans annually, Trinidy works two 11-hour waitressing shifts each weekend to make ends…
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Ted Cruz and His Fight for the Nomination
“The Obama economy is a disaster, Obamacare is a train wreck and the Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind—the whole world is on fire.” Ted Cruz’s climax was nigh as he roused the crowd with hellfire, brimstone and thinly-veiled references to interracial sodomy. Before Mr. Cruz could finish his description of the…
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The Trials of Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s Jurors
The Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant with U.S. citizenship the right to be tried before an “impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.” By this amendment, a jury is meant to be representative of a cross-section of the community in which the crime in question occurred. But…
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A WUPR Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates
On February 18th 2015, WUPR’s editors-in-chief Gabriel Rubin and Sonya Schoenberger interviewed Atlantic national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates during his visit to Washington University. Topics include Coates’ “Case for Reparations,” Ferguson, the state of American mainstream media, and the role of public policy in addressing historical injustices towards African Americans.
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The Problem with “It’s 2014”
A dangerous and anti-intellectual way of thinking about change is becoming increasingly popular in progressive circles. It assumes that social progress is inevitable, and therefore inherently good. Anyone who disagrees isn’t just wrong—they’re “on the wrong side of history.” Often, that sounds something like this: “It’s 2014. Let’s just legalize gay marriage already.” “Why won’t…
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Medical Marijuana is a Farce
BY JOE LENOFF On November 4, my home state of Florida voted on the legal permissibility of medical marijuana. It failed, but it is still significant that Florida voters went to the polls to decide whether the state would become the 24th in the country to approve medical marijuana. Medical marijuana is a nonsensical term…
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Politicizing the Surgeon General
BY RUBY ARORA Ebola took the world by storm a few months ago, and panic has since spread like wildfire through Africa, Europe, and the United States. From Eric Duncan to Nina Pham, each successive case of Ebola in the U.S. shocked American citizens and contributed to the Ebola pandemonium. After the first domestic outbreak,…
