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Editorial Cartoon 12.9.15

The sadness of things

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 ...

How others see us

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 ...

The New York Times front page editorial is more than just opinion

"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 ...

A plea for filling out course evaluations

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 ...

Cruz control?

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, ...

Trump feels terrorism in his gut; turns out to be gas

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 ...

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Politicians must tamp down rhetoric in light of anti-abortion violence

“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 ...

Thoughts while having the flu

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 ...

For candidates and voters alike, a foreign policy must-read

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 ...

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Airport

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 ...

You're both wrong about trigger warnings

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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Ban on public assembly hurts legitimacy of Paris climate talks

The French police announced on Friday that it has put under house arrest at least 24 environmental activists who had openly flouted the ban on protesting put in place for the duration of this week's COP21 climate summit in Paris, according to a Nov. 27 article in The Guardian. The warrants for ...

Burnin' up

This week, world leaders will meet in Paris for the COP21 conference on climate change. The goal is some sort of binding agreement to limit emissions, particularly in emerging economies like China and India.For President Obama, addressing climate change was a campaign promise. Through policies such ...

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Fighting a global killer with a people-powered movement

Each year, millions of people die of curable diseases due to limited access to proper medical care and complications related to global poverty. Currently, one of these diseases is becoming an increasing threat to the livelihoods of vulnerable populations around the world, and it will continue to devastate ...