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-Andrew Sveda | Monday, March 23, 2020
Well, we’ve officially lost it. No doubt about that. Make no mistake, containing the coronavirus, let alone actually curing it, will be anything but an easy fight. But the media has spun the American public into an absolute frenzy. Grocery aisles once filled with nonperishables (and toilet paper) now lay absolutely bare. As everything flies
Andrew Sveda | Monday, February 24, 2020
Ah, the administration — that thing everyone loves to hate. It’s no secret. Go into Duncan or LaFun, start namedropping “Father Jenkins” or “Erin Hoffmann Harding” and you’re bound to hear some pretty impassioned rants. So when it came time to vote in the student body election over the past two weeks, I just assumed
Andrew Sveda | Monday, February 10, 2020
With the Iowa caucus under our belts (maybe?) and New Hampshire coming up tomorrow, election season is finally here. After a year or so of jabs, one-liners, polls and drama, we’ve made it to the good stuff. Buckle up. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. And as we kick off the primaries, everyone’s asking
Andrew Sveda | Monday, January 27, 2020
“So, do you like Trump?” It’s an innocent question (hopefully). A fair one, too. But for years, it’s bothered me. And it’s not that I don’t like politics or think we should ignore the elephant in the room. Quite the opposite. It’s because it’s — obviously — a tremendously loaded question. Answer wrong and pay
Andrew Sveda | Monday, December 9, 2019
Being a religious none is certainly back in style. Not a nun, a “none” — an atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” Amidst the unprecedented decline of American Christianity, this demographic is swiftly ascending in the U.S., adding a whopping 29 million to its numbers in just 10 years. Twenty-nine million in 10 years. There’s
Andrew Sveda | Monday, November 25, 2019
When a close friend says they “don’t know” if they can trust you anymore, it’s obvious something’s wrong. Obvious, that is, to everyone except Donald Trump. This happened earlier this month when French President Emmanuel Macron, reeling from Trump’s reckless maneuvers in Syria, diagnosed NATO with “brain death” and stressed the need for European “[autonomy]
Andrew Sveda | Monday, November 11, 2019
Just two weeks ago, the U.S. celebrated its biggest victory in the battle against ISIS since the organization’s loss of a territorial caliphate this March. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brutal and barbaric caliph of the supposed Islamic State, committed suicide during a raid by U.S. special forces. This comes on the heels of one of
Andrew Sveda | Monday, October 7, 2019
As explained in my last column, America’s greatest military and civilian asset — its satellite and space capabilities — is becoming increasingly vulnerable to an attack that would inflict disastrous consequences both at home and abroad. Recognizing our acute dependence on space, America’s enemies are rushing to craft cheap asymmetric responses to our space technology
Andrew Sveda | Monday, September 23, 2019
A Harvard and MIT researcher calls it a “massive vulnerability” that still has “virtually no policy or oversight agency” to defend it. A member of the House Armed Services Committee says it’s an asset “we are almost as dependent on … as … the sun itself” but has “no castle to protect” it. If attacked,
Andrew Sveda | Monday, September 9, 2019
Australia has long been the go-to case study of the gun control debate. And why not? After only one mass shooting in 1996 (Port Arthur) did Parliament actually do something, rolling out sweeping gun control legislation (the NFA) including a mandatory gun buyback program and a ban on automatic and semi-automatic rifles and pump-action shotguns.