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2018-2019 SGA executive team named
On the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 18, Concordia students gathered in The Maize, awaiting the election results for the 2018-19 academic year Student Government Association executive team. This election was very different from previous years for SGA: for the first time since 2008, an executive team ran without opposition. And so, without contest, Jacob Hanson…
Donald Trump is your president
After barely defeating the stalwart British Army, the United States of America composed a document that would change history. In this document, known as the U.S. Constitution, the general form of the new government and how it was to function was developed. Failsafes and barriers were established to avoid future degeneration into a form of…
Privacy and the presidency
The United States was founded upon several essential ideologies. One of the most important ones is the right of privacy that is alluded to in the Fourth Amendment. Lately, however, many prominent Americans have been having their privacy stripped from them. The most relevant privacy issue right now is regarding Hillary Clinton and her email…
Is the president as powerful as we think?
With this column I’d like to look at different parts of our political system and examine how each has contributed or is contributing to the strange and disillusioning state of US politics in the lead-up to the 2016 election. Cards on the table: I hate our country’s politics with a fervor so great it turns…
Paul-Rubio 2016
Given that the government shutdown is over and Obamacare is a disaster so far, Austin and I decided to look to the future this week. Specifically, we decided to write about who we think is the best candidate for President in 2016 on each side of the political spectrum. Austin is taking the Democrats (and…
The reality of presidential elections
This year, like many years, the two presidential candidates provide American voters not with a decision about who might be the best man for the job, but rather who would be the less worse option. Indeed, it is often the case that presidential elections amount to little more than an agonizing guessing game about which…
Round two
Much like the first debate, Wednesday night’s presidential debate, the second of the election season, drew an audience of more than 65 million viewers. Unlike the first debate, however, Wednesday night featured two men who appeared to be awake. In reality the differences between the first debate and the most recent one are much starker…