Category: OPINION
Cyntoia Brown Case Emphasizes Need for Reform
Carey Maul ’21 Contributing Writer The name Cyntoia Brown has been the center of attention over the past few weeks on various social media platforms […]
Uncommon Carriers, Full of Transport Insight
Samuel Spencer ’21 Contributing Writer If one were to ask the average person to list the most significant technological advances of the past several hundred […]
Simple, Pragmatic Policies Key For Democrats in 2020
ALEX DAHLEM ’20 OPINION EDITOR Is Donald Trump a true populist? A recent book by Bob Woodward highlighting Trump’s rise in the American political ranks […]
Risky Military Involvement is Self-Defeating For the U.S.
AIDAN TUREK ’20 STAFF WRITER The United States armed forces are fighting a long and costly war—with themselves. Our armed forces have undergone a sea […]
The Press: Not a Public Enemy, But Still Misleading
DANIEL NESBITT ’22 STAFF WRITER Is the press the enemy of the people? No. Frankly, it is an idiotic and absurd statement for Trump to […]
Nelson Pinos' Battle: The Story of a Survivor
KABELO MOTSOENENG ’20 OPINION EDITOR Light shies away from the sky and a crowd gathers outside a courthouse on 450 Main Street. The ground is […]
Dems Should Push For Electoral College Change
JAMES CALABRESI ’20 STAFF WRITER The Democratic Party walloped Republicans in the midterms. From Suburban moms to young urbanites, the country woke up that rainy […]
Florida Ballot Initiative A Step in the Right Direction
DAVID MAROTTOLO ’22 STAFF WRITER This past week, political discourse was dominated by discussion of the midterm elections. However, the results of one vote stood […]
Levitsky Comes to Trinity; Talks GOP, Trump's Future
AIDAN TUREK ’20 STAFF WRITER Steven Levitsky, a political scientist at Harvard and co-author with Daniel Ziblatt of the New York Times bestseller “How Democracies […]
Abortion A Key Issue Under New Supreme Court
DANIEL NESBITT ’22 STAFF WRITER Recently, the Alabama Supreme Court issued an interesting decision concerning fetal homicide. The case arose after an Alabama man was […]