Donald Trump tweets arrival of economic strife
By Fred Shoaff, Columnist
December 12, 2018
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One man’s Twitter page has cost investors billions of dollars. Recent stock market volatility has been exacerbated by tweet assaults from President Donald Trump. Since taking office, President Trump has confidently boasted about his positive impact on the economy, but recently has been poking a sle...
Divide and conquer: the strategy of America’s enemies
By Guzi He, Columnist
December 10, 2018
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Roughly 231 years ago, James Madison proclaimed that to divide and conquer was the “reprobate axiom of tyranny.” He was referring to the European empires that lurked around North America waiting to prey on the infant United States. Today, America has worked its way to the top; her roaring eco...
G20 meeting will produce trade deal or disaster
By Daniel Jin, Columnist
December 6, 2018
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Last Saturday, President Trump and President Xi met in Buenos Aires during the annual G20 Summit. This meeting between leaders of the two largest economies in the world decided whether there will be a new trade deal or a new worldwide disaster. The history of the 2018 U.S.-China trade war remains far ...
Facebook does anything to profit
By Anthony Gavrilchenko, Columnist
December 3, 2018
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Facebook is a danger to society. This is not a particularly hot take, but it is one that has been supported by recent developments and historical trends. Under the guise of Thanksgiving, Facebook admitted to the contents of an investigative New York Times piece that suspected systemic misconduct on Facebook’s part in dealing with Russian electioneering, tribalistic divisiveness and anti-Semitic damage control. This is the most rec...
Mother Russia threatens Mother Nature
By Fred Shoaff, Columnist
November 27, 2018
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A recent harrowing climate report released by the U.S. Government shed light on a dark future for the nation. With a focus on the impending damages of CO2 emissions, the report emphasized a stark warning: If provisions for oil, fuel and energy production can’t reign in the climate, the entire worl...
Pritzker, Rauner overspent for governorship
By Collin Carmichael, Columnist
November 26, 2018
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We recently had the most expensive governor’s race not only in Illinois history, but in the history of governor’s races in the United States. The fight between the Republican incumbent Bruce Rauner and Democratic candidate J.B. Pritzker had a profound effect on students here on campus, and not sim...
Democratic ‘Blue Wave’ falls short
By Ajay Dugar, Columnist
November 16, 2018
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If the 2018 midterms were a referendum on the Trump administration, policies and actions, then the democratic “Blue Wave” failed. While voter turnout increased by nearly 40 percent from last midterm election, democrats did not get the results they wanted. In recap of the Kavanaugh hearing fiasco...
Nationalism should not be demonized
By Guzi He, Columnist
November 15, 2018
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Some critics could not stop bombarding Trump after he called himself a “nationalist”, and so a Pittsburgh man with anti-immigrant beliefs opening fire on a synagogue just gave critics a nuclear missile. Ever since Allied troops pried open the gates of Auschwitz, nationalism in the U.S. is seen as evil incarnate, ...
Time for the US to make new friends
By Ajay Dugar, Columnist
November 13, 2018
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Saudi Arabia continues to deflect and deny any wrongdoing after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Turkey. Despite the fact that the murder of a well-known critic of the autocratic Muslim regime was premeditated and unimaginably cruel, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince and head o...
Record midterm voter turnout must continue into 2020
By Noah Nelson, Columnist
November 12, 2018
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President Abraham Lincoln once said, “Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision.” His words stand true even today, as last Tuesday, Americans went to the polls to cast their vote for their favored politicians, changing the United States federal level of politics for the next few years...
Eliminating birthright citizenship ignores history
By Kyra Sadovi, Columnist
November 8, 2018
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President Trump has toppled many presumed norms and policies in his two years in office. His latest assault is on birthright citizenship, something previously viewed as such a vital cornerstone of our American values that even the Supreme Court hasn’t questioned it in over a century. President Tru...
Midterms should spark change in Illinois’ economic policy
By Daniel Jin, Columnist
November 6, 2018
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It's Nov. 6, 2018. With the midterm elections well underway, one thing that shouldn't be forgotten as we vote is Illinois's current economic policy. Illinois is still facing serious fiscal and economic tragedies. Considering the 2018 Illinois gubernatorial election will directly affect the state’...
