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The Impact of Social Media on Presidential Campaigns

The 2012 US election has become a revolution in and of itself. Of course, I could be referring to the dramatic changes in campaign finances or the outlandish comments made by candidates such as Todd Aiken. However, my focus i...

by Kathleen Walpole

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Let Colombia End Its Civil War

Colombia has been the host of some of the most extreme and brutal violence in Latin America’s history. The country’s half-century long conflict has taken the lives of almost a quarter million women, men, and children, and d...

by Global Voices

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South China Sea Dispute: New Battleground for US-China Interests

For over a decade China has been involved in maritime boundary disputes with the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei. With the recent pivot to Asia by the US, the South China Sea has become the new battleground for US-Chi...

by Gaanashree Wood

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Campus Conservatives and Progressives Unite to Raise Awareness About Student Debt Crisis

In conjunction with the College of Wooster Student Government, campus Libertarians and Socialists have united to raise awareness about the student debt crisis. This Tuesday, March 5th, Aaron Calafato will perform his one-man pl...

by Kyle McCarthy

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WATCH: A Short History of the Highrise

The National Film board of Canada has collaborated with the The New York Times Archive Department to create four interactive short films about the history of the highrise and modern living. These great feats of engineering have...

by Nicky Armstrong

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America Pulls Up the Draw-Bridge

Syria, Iran, Israel please form an orderly queue. The United States is out for lunch, closed for refurbishment, putting you on hold. OK, OK I’ll stop with the metaphors. Reading through any world news of late, be it conflic...

by Anna Burt

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Attention: Non Consensual Sexualization Of Children In The Media Ahead…

Framed as being ‘hot’, ‘mature’, and ‘sexy’, media representations of children have been critiqued in recent times, yet again. The issue of portraying children, more so, young girls, as sexualized images has been br...

by Arpita Mitra

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21st Century American Patriotism

Believing in the USA means being an American. Now I don’t mean that in some kind of romantic metaphor of national citizenship, but more of a belief in what the United States is supposed to represent—whatever that may be for...

by Austin Macfadden

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Obamacare-The Democrats On Thin Ice?

The recent implementation of Obama’s healthcare law has been aptly omnipresent in the American media sphere. The flawed rollout has seen millions of people lose their insurance coverage, problems with signing up on the websit...

by Simon Fraser

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The Impact of Social Media on Presidential Campaigns

Let Colombia End Its Civil War

South China Sea Dispute: New Battleground for US-China Interests

Campus Conservatives and Progressives Unite to Raise Awareness About Student Debt Crisis

WATCH: A Short History of the Highrise

America Pulls Up the Draw-Bridge

Attention: Non Consensual Sexualization Of Children In The Media Ahead…

21st Century American Patriotism

Obamacare-The Democrats On Thin Ice?

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