By Eliza Partika
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos cancelled the Obama administration’s June 2016 memos for student loans, which included benefits for loan borrowers including...
Last week, President Obama announced a proposal to provide two years of free community college for students who meet certain criteria. Obama’s plan would...
Professors William Schonfeld and Mark Petracca brought students together once again last Thursday for the latest iteration of their debate series.
The most recent installment...
Just thought it seemed relevant.
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A More Perfect Nation
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“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred...
The very first article I ever wrote for the New University was about how Fox News purports crazy ideas and mistruths. I love when things come full circle.
For the past 16 years, “don’t ask, don’t tell,” has been the standard military policy on homosexuality. It prevents openly gay or lesbian servicemen from serving in the military. This is a highly controversial issue, one that resonates particularly strongly with Californians, who despite narrowly passing Proposition 8 have long been on the forefront of gay rights in this country.
Last week, the winners of the five Nobel Prizes were announced. Most of the laureates earned the prize by introducing something extraordinary. Willard Boyle and George Smith, who were among the four winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics, invented an imaging semiconductor circuit that is the basis of digital photography. Herta Muller won the literature prize for her outstanding literary work “depict[ing] the landscape of the dispossessed.” Carol Greider, Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak won the Prize for Medicine. They discovered how “telomeres are protected from progressive shortening by the enzyme telomerase,” a contribution that has increased our understanding of and our ability to cure cancer.
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is a community organization that was created to help low to moderate income households by providing housing aid and by boosting political involvement among these groups. It is now under scrutiny after being accused of questionable behavior involving child prostitution, political corruption, tax evasion and human trafficking.
There has been a lot of health care coverage over the past few months. It seems as if the voices of pundits on both sides, of screaming protestors and showboating politicians, are constantly pouring out of every speaker. I turn on my radio and they are talking about health care. I turn on my TV and the conversation is about health care. I open my email and all of those news alerts I signed up for are filled with stories about – yes, you guessed it, health care.
Figures on the global stage stepped up to the podium with incendiary speeches, passed controversial notes, and rode the escalator backwards. These are the world’s top diplomats at the world’s most centralized communication forum: the United Nations.
Have you heard about Kanye West? You see what he did to that Taylor Swift girl? What a joke, right? I think that guy’s a total jerk! How does this guy have the nerve to be such a heartless jerk? I am so angry at him! What do you think? I, for one, am glad I am not such a worthless human being like Kanye West is.
