Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
The right to vote is arguably America’s oldest and most important tradition. With the exception of the Civil War, our national conflicts have been resolved with ballots, not bullets. At the time of our nation’s founding, only white men who owned property had the right to vote. The institution of voting, however, has been consistently […]
The past few weeks I haven’t gotten a lot of sleep. That’s actually putting it mildly—I’ve been going to sleep past sunrise every night (including the weekends) and I’ve had to wake up a few hours later for class. My typical night usually involves club meetings and extracurricular commitments until around 10 p.m., at which […]
The entire industrialized world is dealing with the after-effects of recession. The National Bureau of Economic Research declared it started in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, with many analysts calling it the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Banks are being rescued by the federal government, families are walking away […]
For those that know me well, I really hope that, after reading this, you don’t run after me with metaphorical pitchforks, calling me a hypocrite for writing this, because I will perpetually dig my heels into the ground and insist time and again that I am not a hipster! I stand by that statement, despite […]
