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On Tuesday, American citizens will vote candidates, from judges to sheriffs to the president, into office. They will also decide on pressing issues from legalizing marijuana to the salary measures …
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I am voting for my first time in the upcoming election; my brother, Nathan (age 24, Georgetown ’10, BA in Japanese, registered in Washington, DC) is not voting. We are …
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On Election Day, most citizens of the United States will have two options: choose between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, or break the mold and vote for one …
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Anyone who has regularly followed American political news over the last year knows that the economy is kind of a big deal–especially when it comes to the presidential election. Sometimes …
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I remember the presidential election of 2008 as I remember all of the past American presidential elections during my life: with a vague sense that something important was happening, but …
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The National Monitor recently reported that “Governor Romney was the butt of 148 jokes on late-night talk show monologues, which is more than twice as many as President Obama.” Moreover, “The …
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Nut butters are so in right now. Seriously. Almost every food blog I have looked at in the past few months has featured a recipe for homemade nut butter. It …
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In 1981, Salman Rushdie released his second novel, Midnight’s Children, for which he won the Booker Prize for the best original full-length novel of the year. His fourth novel, Their …
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Tuesday morning, I woke up refreshed. Sandy may have rocked my windows the night before, but my spirits were high, and I got to my morning class on time. This …
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Although many of us are aware of gentrification, few people consider it a topic worthy of urgent counteraction. After all, when a neighborhood undergoes an economic revival, many people–like students, …
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In its first season, American Horror Story was largely a dramatic disaster that morphed into a twisted camp comedy. Creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk threw pretty much every horror cliche at …
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Skeezics is a weekly cartoon about the world at large. And American politics.
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