Opinion

EDITORIAL OPED COLUMNS LETTERS PERSPECTIVES

COLUMN: Searching for intent

By Zack Chambers · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:21 p.m.

These United States have reached a point where the letter of the law no longer means anything to their chief executive.

COLUMN: More like a 'pledge of obedience'

By Chris Mitchell · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:21 p.m.

Every day, children in schools from sea to shining sea stand up and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

EDITORIAL: Standards of decency in the Information Age

By Editorial Board · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:21 p.m.

A teenager in Columbus Ohio is accused of livestreaming a freind’ssexual asssault.

COLUMN: Journalism in the information age

By Jacob Worrell · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:21 p.m.

I recently came across a bit of commentary in the New York Times article "For news outlets squeezed from the middle, it's bend or bust" about a topic I’ve always held a fairly firm position on, the role of journalism in the information age.

COLUMN: A teaching moment

By Daniel Kilcullen · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:21 p.m.

Let’s restore respect and appreciation to the teaching profession

COLUMN: Painting the political climate

By Rachel Miller · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:21 p.m.

Artist Illma Gore painted an infamous nude portrait of Donald Trump, the controversial Republican candidate a good majority of Americans love to hate.

Letter: Send in the Marine

By Brett Heinisch · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:19 p.m.

I have spent the past three years at IU studying politics. During my time there I was able to meet, work with, and campaign for Congressman Todd Young.

Letter: Why I can't go home after college

By Corey Dixon · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:19 p.m.

In recent history we’ve seen the LGBT community make tremendous progress in their acquisition of rights.

COLUMN: Democrats have McGovern to thank for Sanders

By Tristan Fitzpatrick · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:19 p.m.

Democratic voters have one man to thank for making their voice heard in the selection of the party’s nominee: George McGovern.

Letter: Choosing a major

By Gerhard Glomm · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:18 p.m.

A bright ambitious student the other day asked what she could do with an econ major. To her, the path to a good career seemed more clear cut with a degree from a professional school.

COLUMN: Want to stop abortions? Teach sex ed

By Neeta Patwari · Monday, April 18,2016 10:16 p.m.

During the Planned Parenthood trials, Republican Representative Jason Chaffertz pointed to an incorrectly labeled graph and stated that the number of abortions performed by planned parenthood had increased between 2006 and 2013.

COLUMN: The faces on our money

By Zack Chambers · Monday, April 18,2016 10:16 p.m.

Does Andrew Jackson deserve to be on the twenty dollar bill? He was a slave owner and killed countless Native Americans in his quest for Manifest Destiny. That being said, the man was so instrumental in forging our modern conception of democracy that his name is now an adjective for it: Jacksonian democracy. Perhaps the more appropriate question is whether or not he should be stripped of this placement today. The removal of past honors is a complex subject. When statues of dictators are felled in foreign countries, nearly all Americans celebrate alongside the newly liberated. However, when the glorification of controversial figures in America is brought up for review, the issue is much less two dimensional.

COLUMN: Hillary Clinton has no soul

By Therin Showalter · Monday, April 18,2016 10:16 p.m.

I don't often agree with Republicans, but when I do it's because we know that Hillary Clinton is a soulless, power-hungry politician whose presidency would hold America back from its greatest potential.

EDITORIAL: TSA crosses the line

By Editorial Board · Monday, April 18,2016 10:16 p.m.

This summer, expect more sun, Netflix marathons and security lines.

EDITORIAL: A foundation of democracy

By Editorial Board · Sunday, April 17,2016 7:23 p.m.

For Americans, our election has seemed like a miasma of a reality T.V. and struggles within political parties themselves.

COLUMN: Protect transparency in the data republic

By Hussain Ather · Sunday, April 17,2016 7:20 p.m.

Knowing is half the battle, and, when it comes to privacy and technology, the other half might be what you don’t know. In the wake of the Panama Papers leak, people have raised concerns about how much we should know about data.

COLUMN: The 'people exploit'

By Samaan Shahsavar · Sunday, April 17,2016 7:18 p.m.

When it comes to computer security, people are the gaping hole for hackers to exploit. Believe it or not, pretty sophisticated technologies exist to protect our data. The encryption algorithms available are well tested and require grossly impractical amounts of resources to breach. Virus detection and spam blocking are at all-time highs as well.

COLUMN: Both sides are playing politics

By Zack Chambers · Sunday, April 17,2016 6:10 p.m.

On Thursday Senate minority leader Harry Reid held a press conference in front of the Supreme Court building telling Republicans to do their job. This begs the question of what exactly is Senate Republicans’ job?

EDITORIAL: Lil 5 do's and don'ts

By Editorial Board · Thursday, April 14,2016 6:40 p.m.

DO: Listen to the races on the radio Even if you cannot shell out the $25 to go see the race in person—because let’s be honest, every $25 counts when you owe IU upwards of $20k—you should at least consider listening to the race on the radio.

COLUMN: Shoot for the stars

By Jessica Karl · Thursday, April 14,2016 6:40 p.m.

On Tuesday English physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced that they’re investing billions of dollars to send a fleet of robot spacecraft to Alpha Centuri, the nearest star system. These robots are tiny– think transformers.

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