“No Trump! No KKK! No racist U.S.A.!,” shouts the mob of students as they protest a speech by former White House adviser Steve Bannon. Blocked from storming into the lecture hall by a solid wall of police, the protesters’ chants soon become decidedly more pointed. “Who protects the racists? Police protect the racists!” they scream....
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Letter to Editor: The U.S. should not be selling nuclear reactants to Saudi Arabia
Dear Editor, In last week’s Collegian, Ms. Abby Liebing wrote about the Trump administration’s apparent attempts to secretly sell $80 billion of nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia. It remains unclear whether the proposed deal was strictly financially motivated, or whether it was a subtle attempt to assist the Saudis in developing nuclear weapons. Ms. Liebing...
Conservatives: Don’t dump Trump in the GOP primary
In the world of op-eds and talking heads a campaign is underway to unseat President Donald Trump in the Republican primary. In December, the New Yorker put forward former Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who retired with a negative approval rating in his own state, or Michael Bloomberg, if he switched parties again after re-registering as...
Trump’s State of the Union
President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union Address to the 116th United States Congress on Tuesday after a week’s delay due to the partial government shutdown. Though it’s unlikely anyone remembers what was discussed during last year’s address, the SOTU has become a lightning rod for policy debate — for one news...
Withdrawing American troops from Syria: a rash decision
On Dec. 19, President Trump abruptly declared that he was withdrawing and bringing home the American troops in Syria. He announced in a video, “We have won against ISIS. Our boys, our young women, our men — they’re all coming back and they’re coming back now.” Trump originally indicated that the withdrawal would be immediate...




