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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…

  • 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,…

  • Read the WUPR Election Issue!

    Be sure to pick up your print copy of the issue today!  

  • 1824 and 2016

    Citizens are so preoccupied with the spec­tacle of the current election cycle that they forget a precedent exists for their current times; those who wonder what Clinton and Trump presidencies would be like need look no further than John Quincy Adams and “Old Hickory” himself, Andrew Jackson. It’s 1824, and the United States is gearing…

  • Gary Johnson: The Sane Candidate

    Gary Johnson isn’t just the best choice for President of the United States—he’s the only choice. Faced with two of the worst, most unpopular major party nominees in mod­ern US history, there is simply no other option. Donald Trump: an uninformed egomaniac and pathological liar whose authoritarian nature, ra­cially-charged rhetoric, and lack of coherent pol­icy…

  • Ask What You Can Do for Your State

    Any college freshman can tell you that America is not as homogeneous as we pretend. We come to Washington University in St. Louis knowing we will meet people of different cultural backgrounds, but heritage manifests itself in ways we do not ex­pect. No one talks about North Dakota’s culture, West Virginia’s culture, or Michigan’s culture,…

  • Looking Beyond the Highest Office

    On August 4, 2016, I was reading a FiveThirtyEight article by David Wasserman discussing the oft-ignored elections of state and local primaries and their impacts on our country’s deepening political division, as well as the disconnect between the interests of politi­cians and voters across all levels of government. In his analysis, Wasserman describes how low…