Monday night in MacMillan 117, you can hear a woman tell a personal story that reads like a movie script, but with more. It has not just intrigue, action, love, ligitation and heartbreak, but a real, profound effect on all of our lives.
In 1964, Republican Barry Goldwater said, "I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow." Goldwater feared centralized government so much that, despite having co-founded the Arizona NAACP, he opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act on principle because it extended federal power.
There are many issues on which a sizeable number of U.S. citizens, sometimes majorities, claim that the federal government does not reflect their views: education, foreign policy, the Terri Schiavo case and now the war in Iraq.
Imagine an issue that 94 percent of Americans agree on. I realize it's hard - It's been hard to get past red versus blue these last few years, particularly since November. The things that divide us have been receiving so much attention that it is almost impossible to imagine what might unite us all. ...
I spent my spring break, both days and nights, with five other Brown students in one of the nation's most dangerous neighborhoods.
It shouldn't be a news flash that President Bush's new budget has more bad news for the poorest Americans.
I sat down to write another column decrying the Bush administration's disregard for the needy and downtrodden. I started writing about the disappearance of "compassionate conservatism." David Kuo, the deputy director of Bush's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives for most of his first term, ...
It looks like the Bush administration might finally do something good - something amazing. Maybe I should know better, but I think there has got to be some good in him somewhere just like any other person. Could this be it?
Many people say that perception is reality. This makes sense, as anyone's perception of the truth or reality can remain unaffected by facts so long as those facts remain unknown. That said, I doubt that President Bush ever asked an aide for a memo on poverty statistics or economic inequality in the ...
The presidential election has been over for a week. I'm talking now about 2006 and beyond.
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