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They walked the U.S.-Mexico border. Tonight they present a book, film about the trek

As part of the Oxford Conference for the Book, Mark Hainds and Rex Jones will present their connected works about the U.S.-Mexico border — Hainds’s...

OPINION: There will be no country without funding

Dec. 22 marked the start of the longest government shutdown in American history. It ended on Jan. 25 with the still-looming threat of another within 21...

Opinion: Our infrastructure is a dire disaster

To progressively grow as an economy, a country cannot run without adequate and superior infrastructure. America’s infrastructure though, according to...

Opinion: The inescapable tariff on life

There are many factors that affect the price of healthcare in the United States. Chiefly among these are insurers, excessive litigation, volatile prices...

An overview of drone strikes in Pakistan

On November 1st, 2013, a US drone strike killed Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of the Pakistani Taliban. The death of Mehsud is indisputably a victory for the...

Reading between the Iranian red lines

Over the past weekend, talks in Geneva between Iran and the United States, permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany took place...

Seeking congressional approval on Syria

This week, the role of the United States in the Syrian civil war has taken a new direction. The Syrian civil war, a largely sectarian conflict waged between...

Will America ever have a Ms. President?

With Margaret Thatcher’s death on Monday, her incredible legacy has been a hot topic in the international media for the better part of this week. And for good reason. Thatcher not only became the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom in 1979, she also went on to win re-election twice more in 1983 and 1987. The changes and reform that her conservative party...

Finish your plate or encourage an increase in foreign aid spending

Growing up, most of us can recall our parents admonishing us not to waste food by claiming that there are starving kids around the world who would dream of having that food. Although children rightly roll their eyes when they hear this because the food cannot get to the starving, our parents do have a point. There are starving children around the world who desperately...

Workshop promotes National Equal Pay Day

A study released by the American Association of University Women on the pay wage gap in the U.S. in men and women cause conflicting opinions among students and faculty. Workshops on campus today are looking to reduce the discrepancy in the wage gap between men and women. The American Association of University Women reported in March that women working full-time in the...

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