Category: Viewpoints

Amanda Priest Significant contextual information: one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone tells me I look like another person. The awkward interaction of “Oh! You look just like my friend Diane from high school, you guys should totally meet!” is one that happens all too often. One, why would I want to meet…

Libba Smith In a now infamous comment during a debate on Oct. 23, Indiana’s Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock was asked if he believes that abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest. He replied by saying, “I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something…

Soona Salem In Monday night’s debate, both President Obama and Gov. Romney pledged to continue helping arm Syrian opposition militantism a careful way, excluding the foreign and domestic Islamist groups that now have an undeniable role in the conflict. Until now, this strategy has been prudent. After all, the complexity of the situation in Syria…

Dan Grantham Monday’s debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama was heated and divisive. With four years in the Oval Office under his belt,  I think that regardless of personal political beliefs, we can agree Obama has more foreign policy experience than Gov. Romney. Still, I was intensely troubled by Romney’s prescription for foreign policy.…

James Parker The third presidential debate focused on the hotly contested topic of foreign policy. Much like the Bush administration’s, President Obama’s foreign policy has been indelibly marked by its role in the Middle East. Finding success in Libya and in the killing of Osama bin Laden, but floundering in its response to the protests…

Eric Moizuk All you kids out there don’t know what you have these days. You don’t know how to appreciate the amazing things you have access to that the rest of the world might not. Over fall break, I spent a day and a half at my mom’s new house in Hinckley Township. It’s about…