Meghan Eaton ’18 – Inside Politics Program On Thursday February 19th, in Chicago, President Obama launched his “Every Kid In a Park” initiative. This initiative gives all fourth graders and their families – starting this coming fall – free admission for the year to all National Parks. The initiative hopes to encourage more kids to go […]
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Conor Barry ’16 Inside Politics Since the new millennium has started, the United States and countless other nations have witnessed and fallen victim to heinous acts committed by transnational terrorist organizations. In the United States alone, citizens have seen the Twin Towers and the Pentagon attacked by commercial aircrafts, a bombing of an embassy in […]
Kevin Bardin ’15 Inside Politics An olive branch has been offered and if accepted by the necessary majority, the American public may have some of its faith in the Senate restored. The hope is that this week a bipartisan bill will be proposed before the Senate and will receive the needed votes to pass which […]
Daniel Cummings ’17 Inside Politics In response to the domestic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States invaded Afghanistan on October 7th of the same year. More than twelve years later, the United States continues to conduct combat operations against a broken enemy. As part of a general War on Terror, which includes […]
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Conflicts within Ukraine
Julia Scacchitti ’15 Inside Politics The current situation in Ukraine has led to various controversies concerning the involvement of the European Union (EU) and the United States in these devastating human rights violations. Violent clashes between protesters and Interior Ministry troops on February 18 have led to further violence within the country and caused a […]
Kelly McGrath ’15 Women in Leadership This past week kicked off with President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech, which addressed women’s issues within our country. He stated that it is time for our country to move away from “Mad Men like policies,” and start focusing on ending gender inequalities. He addressed the difficulties […]
Alan Osborn ’15 Early Sunday, November 24th, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and leaders from France, Britain, Germany, China, and Russia reached a deal with The Islamic Republic of Iran on its nuclear energy program. According to the White House it stipulates that Iran will commit to halting the enrichment of uranium above the […]
Sam Blum ’15 To put it lightly, the past week has not been kind to President Obama and his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ‘Obamacare’. For the past month the website where citizens could sign up for the health insurance exchanges, Healthcare.gov, has been plagued by technical errors. These errors quickly […]
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The Future of the Affordable Care Act
Jacki Turet ’16 This is the week that President Obama’s controversial health care reform plan, the Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) –more commonly know as Obamacare- will be set into action. The unprecedented Affordable Care Act will fundamentally reform the way health insurance companies function. First and foremost, all Americans are […]
Claire Martin ‘17 The New York Times printed an article this week entitled “As Budget Fight Looms, Obama Sees Defiance in His Own Party” , The article discusses how President Obama is losing the support of his own party in many ways. The authors describe the criticism he faces, including that he is not strong enough as a […]
