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Fighting for the environment is fighting for civil rights

Fighting for the environment is fighting for civil rights

Emma Royal September 27, 2017

Keeping up with the current political climate is, in a word, exhausting. As a young, concerned citizen, Democrat, and political enthusiast, it is difficult to decide which issues are worth the time it...

Do what you can for others, even if it's not enough

Do what you can for others, even if it’s not enough

Sophie Williams September 26, 2017

Existence comes with inevitable interdependence and responsibility.  You may think and act on an individual basis, but you are inextricably connected to the other people who share your society and the...

Trump supports free speech for Nazis, not for people of color

Trump supports free speech for Nazis, not for people of color

Ruben Tarajano September 26, 2017

The president has hit a breaking point, and his true colors are showing now more than ever. The U.S. has been pushed to the brink of nuclear war with North Korea, multiple natural disasters have destroyed...

Alabama's Senate run-off decides the future of Trumpism

Alabama’s Senate run-off decides the future of Trumpism

Nicolas Briscoe September 26, 2017

   With the constant shifting of loyalties and landscape in the Senate, each race has the potential to mean the difference in the Republican majority and legislative agenda. In the ever-fractured Republican...

Our view: student debt crisis must be addressed

Our view: student debt crisis must be addressed

September 25, 2017

College students today face a variety of challenges, but none is more serious than the mounting student debt crisis that is putting financial pressure on millions of young people. Currently American college...

Financial illiteracy is an epidemic

Financial illiteracy is an epidemic

Ben Jackson September 25, 2017

If you are reading this, you are probably bad with money. That’s not meant to be an insult, just a statistical observation. In fact, most Americans are bad with money. The median retirement savings for...

REBUTTAL: America is not perfect, but it is great

REBUTTAL: America is not perfect, but it is great

Mark Alvarez September 22, 2017

Yes, America is great. This has been proven time and time again. The continued making of history has revealed the incredible nature of our tremendous nation.  Our nation is a cultural and political mosaic—...

College women, congratulations on being single

College women, congratulations on being single

Megan Friend September 22, 2017

For girls, it was hard to make it through middle school without being convinced that you were weird if you had not had a boyfriend. And then, in the era of High School Musical and countless other teen...

COLUMN: Bipartisanship does not exist in American politics

COLUMN: Bipartisanship does not exist in American politics

Chandler Gory September 21, 2017

Bipartisanship is for wishful thinkers and overly optimistic independents. I am neither of those things.    One day, school children will read about this foreign concept, and they’ll laugh. Democrats...

REBUTTAL: In defense of facts

REBUTTAL: In defense of facts

Ben Jackson September 21, 2017

America has a tenuous relationship with the facts. Which is why, when I read Sam West’s piece “Against Facts, Logic and Reason,” I was dismayed. It was particularly discouraging to hear those words...

OUR VIEW: Millennials deserve respect

OUR VIEW: Millennials deserve respect

CW Editorial Board September 21, 2017

Millennial bashing has become an incredibly popular sport amongst, well, basically every member of any older generation.  According to older pundits on the right and the left, and probably your uncle,...

REBUTTAL: Price gouging during disasters is not acceptable

REBUTTAL: Price gouging during disasters is not acceptable

Paul Bousquet September 20, 2017

Last week, a fellow Opinion writer at the CW published an article entitled “Price gouging during disasters is a good thing”. The topic of the article was, of course, the evacuation and aftermath following...