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EDITORIAL: Obama compromises the Supreme Court by nominating Garland

By Editorial Board · Tuesday, March 22,2016 9:52 p.m.

No doubt, President Obama made a compromise choice when he appointed D.C. Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court last Wednesday.

COLUMN: The morality of museums

By Rachel Miller · Tuesday, March 22,2016 9:52 p.m.

Art museums generally seem like neutral spaces free from politics and social issues. Art museums put pretty pictures, sculptures and videos on display and offer generally affordable admission for all types of people. The engaging displays art museums offer can often blind people to the reality of the museum itself. The art museum is an institution.

Letter: Curricular Choices

By Gerhard Glomm · Tuesday, March 22,2016 9:51 p.m.

Think Economics.

COLUMN: Nurturing mental health resources

By Tristan Fitzpatrick · Tuesday, March 22,2016 9:51 p.m.

Increasing amounts of students are leaving school because of mental health concerns. This means that universities, as a whole, are not committing enough resources to deal with this important issue.

LETTER: Happy birthday Obamacare

Tuesday, March 22,2016 9:51 p.m.

Six years after passing the Affordable Care Act, more than 20 million Americans have gained health insurance coverage

COLUMN: Bringing reality to video games

By Jacob Worrell · Tuesday, March 22,2016 9:51 p.m.

Many adventure-based videogames, much like many works in other story-based art forms, take a typified, triumphant narrative arc.

COLUMN: Private prisons welcome refugees with open pockets

By Daniel Kilcullen · Tuesday, March 22,2016 9:51 p.m.

Our prison system is in dire need of an overhaul

COLUMN: The echoes of Benghazi

By Chris Mitchell · Tuesday, March 22,2016 9:50 p.m.

The Benghazi tragedy isn’t much of a foreign policy success story.

COLUMN: Wrestling with the first amendment

By Zack Chambers · Tuesday, March 22,2016 9:50 p.m.

It sounds like a particularly heinous episode of a late night cartoon. The wife of Bubba the Love Sponge, his actual, legal name, had relations with Bubba’s friend Hulk Hogan. Unfortunately for those that prefer reality not resemble South Park, all of this in fact did occur. And a video exists, which found its way onto Gawker’s website.

COLUMN: Sin tax

By Neeta Patwari · Monday, March 21,2016 7:46 p.m.

In response to having the third highest obesity rates in Europe the United Kingdom decided to enact a sugar tax.

EDITORIAL: Yale athlete not exempt from consequences

By Editorial Board · Monday, March 21,2016 7:45 p.m.

In a bumpy start to Yale’s first appearance in the NCAA tournament in 54 years, senior captain Jack Montague was expelled from the university after he was ruled to have violated the sexual-misconduct policy

COLUMN: Donald Trump will never become president

By Therin Showalter · Monday, March 21,2016 7:45 p.m.

Donald J. Trump will never become president of the United States.

COLUMN: Shedding light on sunscreen's claims

By Whitney Kiepura · Monday, March 21,2016 7:45 p.m.

Sitting behind a lighthouse on Key Biscayne, we waited for the National Park Service ranger to begin the tour. He asked if anyone had questions; and we did, sunscreen.

EDITORIAL: Turning Guantánamo Bay into a marine research center

By Editorial Board · Sunday, March 20,2016 9:26 p.m.

Almost an entire year after lifting the United States embargo with Cuba, President Obama will visit the Caribbean nation again this Sunday.

COLUMN: Scientists are people too

By Hussain Ather · Sunday, March 20,2016 9:26 p.m.

When I tell people I study physics, I get a lot of different reactions. Some people think I’m some sort of natural-born genius while others think I spend hours each day in a room with a chalkboard and calculator.

COLUMN: On internet art

By Josh Byron · Sunday, March 20,2016 9:26 p.m.

The spread of internet art or net.art has been a rising phenomena introducing numerous questions to the "fine" art world.

COLUMN: Pence needs to listen

By Elyse Johnson · Sunday, March 20,2016 8:28 p.m.

Pence has angered many residents of the state with his extreme conservative policies from the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, blocking Syrian refugees from entering the state and, most recently, HB1337.

COLUMN: The bigger the head, the bigger the win

By Jessica Karl · Thursday, March 10,2016 8:43 p.m.

I can only say I’ve been an Indiana Hoosier for three years, but throughout those years every basketball game I’ve attended we’ve had some unusual companions in attendance as well who arguably have the best seats in the house.

COLUMN: In death, there is life

By Jay Keche · Thursday, March 10,2016 8:43 p.m.

Every moment of every day – whether you’re at school, home, or hiking in the woods – you are surrounded by creatures that are just waiting to consume you.

COLUMN: Reaffirming Black History Month

By Grace Kelly · Thursday, March 10,2016 8:41 p.m.

In the words of Malcolm X, “Our history did not begin in chains." However, whenever the story of black people is told in America it usually starts with slavery.

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