On Jan. 5, President Obama announced a series of executive actions to address gun violence in this country. The President’s actions reflect his frustration with Congress, which continually fails to act despite the horrific number of gun murders every day. As Obama announced his series of actions ...
The earth is on fire.Well, it's not actually – but it may as well be. According to preliminary data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the globe experienced its warmest year on record in 2015, eclipsing the old record set in 2014. Indeed, 2015 was nearly 0.90 degrees ...
The New York Times addressed America’s gun epidemic this week in an editorial posted on the front page of the paper [ahem…front page…cough, cough managing board]. The paper called our country’s gun laws “a moral outrage and national disgrace.”But New Jersey Governor and man whose last ...
This past semester, perhaps more than others, I have felt more American than ever before. The holidays mark my seventh year anniversary in the country. I came to Washington D.C. with my parents almost seven years ago this winter. Now, I am the only representative of the Fabre-Perez de Vargas family ...
Okay. Enough is enough. As the son of parents who were uprooted from their homes on the West Coast and made to live in an American concentration camp in Wyoming, I want to stand up and say that Donald Trump and his supporters should reflect a bit more on the consequences (and the premises) of their ...
The role society plays in how we see ourselves and how we see the world is incredible. Many of us profess having this brick-wall exterior that renders us exempt from society’s claws. We don’t give a damn about how others perceive our haircuts or our frayed jeans. We are impervious to criticism or ...
"End the Gun Epidemic in America."On Friday, The New York Times published a front page editorial, its first since 1920, under this unequivocal headline. In the article, the paper's editorial board called for American politicians and policymakers to take concrete action to end the mass ...
Under the old system, it was simple. An instructor would set aside the last 10 minutes of a course’s final session and distribute a two-sided paper evaluation form. The instructor would then leave the room, and an appointed student would collect the completed forms and deliver them to the departmental ...
November was an awful month for turkeys, the Philadelphia 76ers and perhaps most of all, Dr. Ben Carson. He went from top in the polls to 15 points behind Donald Trump in all of three weeks. Referring to Hamas, the Palestinian political organization viewed by the United States as a terrorist group, ...
Four days after the Paris attacks, Donald Trump explained to a crowd in Tennessee that he has an uncanny ability to see terrorism coming. He pointed to the fact that in his 2000 book, he described Osama Bin Laden as a “shadowy figure.” His unique ability to identify villains is the reason no ...
“No more baby parts.” This was the sentiment repeated by Robert Dear as he fired his gun at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last Friday. Three people lost their lives, and nine others were injured in the attack. Mass shootings are an epidemic in this country that have gone largely unaddressed ...
A couple of years ago, I got a concussion in West Hall. I just stood up and hit the ceiling. For those who were not there to witness it, it was quite a scandal -- a fire truck, an ambulance and two police cars all arrived on the scene. The Tufts medical team deemed me “incapable of making medical ...
The Obama years have borne witness to more than their share of books on foreign policy strategy. Standouts particularly worth applause are Bret Stephens’ "America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder" (2014) and Vali Nasr’s "The Dispensable Nation: American ...
Airports are human-crafted spaces that demand a special type of obedience resembling that of highly qualified military personnel. They require a certain uniform acquiescence inherent to forming long lines and waiting patiently. They test how easily you acquire the necessary knowledge of what goes under ...
Like all political debates, someone is right and someone else is wrong when it comes to trigger warnings on college campuses. Or at least that's what the tsunami of think pieces chiming in on the debate would have us believe. Doubt me and just Google it to get a sense of the righteous indignation ...
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