In the past two years, President Donald Trump has enforced several unnecessarily harsh policies targeting both legal and illegal immigrants.
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Read moreStudents must use their political voices
Since 1986, only 20 percent of eligible American young adults have voted in federal elections. Over the last decade, that percentage has only decreased as the next oldest age group, 30 to 44, surpassed them by 17 percent.
Read moreConsumers beware: Your hypocrisy is showing
What does it take for progressives to put cash into conservative pockets? Not much, apparently.
Read moreWarriors walk out
Signs declaring, “We Call BS” and “#enough;” students and teachers alike looking silently at the ground; 17 empty chairs, one for each victim—these were just a few of the scenes from the Mar. 14 walkout honoring the lives of the Parkland shooting victims and demanding stricter gun laws.
Read moreFake News—What is it and what are its impacts?
Recent years have seen a surge of fake news so prevalent that the term even became the Collins Dictionary “2017 Word of the Year.”
Read moreLet’s rethink holiday season shopping
Ka-ching!—the season for shopping has arrived. It can be difficult to control our shopping habits when sales abound during the holiday season. After all, money can buy happiness, right? Unfortunately, the answer’s no.
What do we do now?
On a seemingly normal Monday morning, Oct. 4, I opened up my phone to the terrifying news that a concert in an open and supposedly safe area had turned into a bloody nightmare. But what may be even more horrifying is how commonplace shootings are in the U.S. On Nov. 2, a shooting in a Colorado Walmart took the lives of three innocent people.
Read moreHow social media is changing news
Following a Ku Klux Klan rally in Charlottesville, pictures of rioters rapidly circulated through social media. Immediately after they surfaced, people traced International Protocol addresses and illegally stalked profiles to expose the demonstrators.
Read moreHow social media is changing politics
In 2005, only five percent of the United States population used social media. Today, that number has increased to 70 percent. This widespread use of social media has impacted how Americans view the world around them, particularly in terms of politics and social issues.
Read moreDenouncing Betsy DeVos
DeVos’s lack of experience in public education makes her an inadequate candidate for Secretary of Education and a detriment to the future of American education. The long lasting struggle to reform the US public education system gains little from the appointment of DeVos. What was an opportunity to improve public education accountability and standards is now wasted on DeVos who has neither ambitions nor the capability to advance public education.
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