As a student volunteer at the Shalom Community Center, I recently did a winter clothing drive as a class final project.
With the conclusion of Louisiana’s senatorial election runoff this past Saturday, the 2014 midterm cycle has officially come to a close.
Isn’t it interesting that we think that some government entity can best decide what is the appropriate minimum wage for every organization in the country.
With regards to the Rolling Stone article about UVA - what is now up for debate: Whether Drew was a member of the fraternity. Whether Drew was a lifeguard. Whether the fraternity had a social event on the books that night. Some other inconsistencies in Jackie's story My responses, in order: Why does this matter if it occurred at the fraternity and included other fraternity members?
We stand with the people around the country calling for justice and racial equality in American society. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, “the opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.” He said this to wake up the masses during the Civil Rights Movement to bring people to their feet and combat racial inequality.
I’m usually pretty optimistic about the day after tomorrow — I’ve been dismissed more than once as a techno-utopian — but sometimes when I get depressed by NSA surveillance, drones, and the corporate state’s manufactured aura of inevitability, I need a story to cheer me up.
Wow, I had barely recommended repealing the laws that restrict U.S.
Global-warming talks in Paris next year have a better chance of reaching a productive conclusion now that the two biggest economies in the world, which also happen to be the two biggest climate polluters, have promised to curb greenhouse gases dramatically by 2030. But the questions other nations will be asking as they analyze the forward-looking agreement reached by President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are exactly how they intend to achieve these ambitious goals and, indeed, whether they will be able to carry out their promises. The latter question applies especially to Obama, who already faces opposition to the deal from Republican lawmakers, who will soon control both houses of Congress.
Think of our schools as a horse and buggy – it worked well in a different time, but times have changed.
Dear Democrats,We took some hits in yesterday’s (November 4, 2014)
“Today I had a chance to speak with John Boehner and congratulated Mitch McConnell on becoming the next Senate majority leader,” President
Carmen (Heredia Rodriguez's)
The Republicans have regained a majority in the Senate in a chain of resounding wave election victories.
On Sept. 11, 2001, two passenger airplanes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center.
Once again, Americans will go to the polls on November 4 to decide their fearless leaders for the next two years.
An individual's life is a continuum.
On Friday, October 24, the Indiana Daily Student printed a story about predicted voter turnout in this year’s midterm elections.
A recent story in the Wall Street Journal highlights the “growing roster of countries” that now want a say in the world’s major corporate mergers.
