After two days of the “Conservative” Political Action Conference, it became abundantly clear: The Republican Party is no longer the place for me. I don’t know what I expected, honestly. I knew that the Grand Old Party was now the party of President Donald Trump, that traditional conservatives such as Sens. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, and...
Tucked away on Hillsdale Street is a small brick building with an orange awning called the House of Pizza and BBQ. Most people go for its Ultimate Barbecue Pizza, but for others, it is a place for gaining new skills and new opportunities. “It’s just packed with the barbecue taste,” Hillsdale sophomore Nick...
Yet another school shooting has rendered 17 families without loved ones, a school with a broken heart, and an entire nation in fear. School shootings represent an unfortunate, recurring predicament in this country. The time has come when we can no longer ignore it. We must search for real solutions; this must begin with ourselves....
In the middle of formal recruitment my freshman year, I called home. I wanted to get the heck out. Fuming on the phone to my family that sororities were just an arbitrary social construct prone to the cultivation of facades, my dad interrupted me: “And is there anything wrong with that?” I didn’t get the...
As critics rightly scathed North Korea for masking human-rights atrocities with a red-clad female cheer squad during the Pyeongchang Olympics last month, another high-profile human-rights abuser at the games escaped such negative attention — as it usually does. China’s human-rights offenses and tepid friendliness with North Korea are widely reported. Yet the country — a...