Kirsten Smith ’13 In the past week, Republican Presidential candidates have caused quite an uproar over contraception. In 1965, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Griswold v. Connecticut that prohibited a state from outlawing the use of contraception. GOP candidate Rick Santorum has publicly announced his desire to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision in […]
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Maura Magistrali ’14 Female leaders are on the rise, as shown by Josefina Vazquez Mota’s recent presidential nomination in Mexico. As women strive for some of the most powerful positions in the world, it is necessary to investigate their potential impact, and examine some of the challenges they will face. In Al Jazeera, Joseph S. […]
Anna Cammisa ’13 All the major U.S. news outlets featured articles this week about the ongoing congressional battle over the extension of payroll tax cuts and Republicans’ eventual reversal of the their position on the issue. President Obama’s 2013 budget proposal was released earlier this week and has so far generated a number of varying […]
Ludiwien Cooreman ’13 Now that the smell of empowerment is still reverberating in the streets of Egypt: what will the role of women be in post-Mubarak Egypt? Al Jazeera‘s D. Parvaz, in an article called “Egypt’s feminists prepare for long battle,” states that “The Egyptian woman has participated in both the initiation and continuation of […]
Melanie Rader ’13 This week Politico columnist Glenn Thrush, along with many other major news outlets, discussed the positive and negative implications of President Obama’s decision to accept the support of super PAC donations. The economy also took center stage following the jobs report released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which showed […]
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America Needs Real Leadership
Kasey Pipes, Presidential Speech writer and EI Norris Fellow of Public Policy More than 50 years after his presidency and 40 years after his death, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s legacy remains alive and well. New books appear almost every year re-evaluating the 34th president’s achievements. His stock among historians has never been higher. But to see […]
Carly Anders ’13 This week Catalina Camia predicted wins for Rick Santorum in Tuesday’s GOP primaries in her USA Today article regarding Mitt Romney’s perceived weakness as a Republican candidate due to his moderate views. The Los Angeles Times discussed the resignation of Susan G. Komen official, Karen Handel, following a dispute regarding funding to […]
Taylor Amato ’14 This week Bloomberg reported that in Facebook’s IPO filing, it came to light that among astonishing revenues and other successes, the number of women on the board was shocking—because it was zero. Interestingly, The Huffington Post also published an article this week reporting the findings of a 2010 Women’s Report, which stated that […]
Jay O’Connor ’12 Given the current turmoil in world financial markets regarding national debt levels, inflationary monetary policy, and the ever encroaching powers of the U.S. government in the global economic system, a drastic change is necessary. As the scope of our national government’s ability to mandate economic policy begins to far exceed the levels […]
