_The West Wing_, written and produced by Aaron Sorkin, is one of the most prolific TV series based on the American political system. Even today, the issues addressed in the series are incredibly relevant....

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The presidential election last November brought instrumental advances for the LGBTQ community and its allies. With the reelection of President Barack Obama, the U.S. will have another term with the only...

“Sí se puede” isn’t just the famous line from a Disney Channel original movie; it means so much more. It’s a motto by which Mexico has been striving to achieve for the past couple decades. The...

As a columnist, I get paid to share my opinions on politics. However, I'll be the first one to admit that sometimes people should keep their opinions to themselves. Such was the case on Sunday night,...

When my little brother was four years old, he and my dad had a nightly routine where they would do some father-son bonding in front of the TV right before bedtime. One night, likely sometime in December,...

We’re students, not economists, but if you had to choose, do you think our global economy should serve as an instrument for short-term profit or one for long-term prosperity? Hopefully most of us would...

Does anyone remember when Rush Limbaugh labeled Sandra Fluke a slut? Does anyone remember when five males and zero females walked into the Republican hearing on birth control one month later? In April,...

Let’s admit it. Where would we be without Wikipedia? Known as “the lifesaver” in terms of writing paper and “unscholarly” when referenced by professors, it is a universally viewed website among...

In 1954, while recovering from back surgery, then-Sen. John F. Kennedy began to write a book. It was a study of eight U.S. senators and their then-unpopular decisions that they thought were right for America....

Anyone who has ever walked across thin ice can attest to how fragile it is, and how terrifying watching the ice splinter around your feet as you walk across can be, because everyone knows that it could...

On Thanksgiving, I took some serious time to think about what I’m truly thankful for this year. The first things to come to mind were the clichés: my family, friends and health. After those general...