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Django Unchained opens with a title sequence befitting a classic Spaghetti Western—crone-like slaves stagger across a rocky red landscape, cling to their rags as “Django”, the eponymous song from the original Italian film, plays. The scene...
A fierce debate is raging in our country’s capital. Local papers are taking sides, and the Washington City Paper is going as far as to refuse to call a group by its official name. The continued use of the Redskins mascot by Washington...
In any other year, Chicago’s 506 murders would have been treated as a passing, local travesty. But in the year of Newtown and Aurora, violent death in American urban warzones is finally trendy enough for the New York Times and CNN. President...
In January of 2007, Adrian Fenty assumed his position as mayor of the District of Columbia. He entered the office on the heels of a landslide election victory, having won every precinct in the general election. But when, four years later, he...
The White House had a secession crisis on its hands. Citizens from Texas and eight other states had petitioned to the White House to allow these states to withdraw peacefully from the Union. While the crisis did not break up the Union, it did...
By definition, ‘filibuster’ is an informal term for an attempt to block or slow down a Senate action or bill by refusing to finish debating it. The origins of this quirky tool are not found in the Constitution, but rather in the perversion...
On January 9th, 2013 a young Sri Lankan maid named Rizana Nafeek was beheaded in Saudi Arabia for the alleged murder of her employers’ infant son. There are several key details in this recent news headline which make it particularly shocking....
At age fifteen, Armando Cruz stole tools from his neighbor’s garage and was forced into a psychiatric unit while his court proceedings took place. Throughout this time, Armando began to hear voices and paranoia overtook him. At age seventeen,...
On the surface, the main news story pertaining to U.S.-Russian relations over the past few months has been Russia’s stomach-turning anti-American adoption law that would bar Americans from adopting Russian children. Americans adopt thousands...
It is time to disassociate the War on Terror from military intervention. The United States has conducted targeted killings using unmanned drones in at least three countries (Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan), with which it is not officially at...