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Jackie O'Brien | Thursday, February 13, 2020
While everyone has been lamenting Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ripping up of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech as the ultimate display of partisanship and lack of civility, we seem to have forgotten who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom that same night. Our president bestowed our nation’s highest civilian honor on a racist,
Mary Szromba | Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Watching Donald Trump stumble his way through his presidency has been a fascinating and depressing experience. How has a man who lacks intelligence, experience and political instincts managed not to destroy his own presidency yet? It seems like he is incapable of stringing a coherent sentence together when it isn’t scripted. How was he still
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
BridgeND | Monday, October 14, 2019
For many, Columbus Day is a 19th century holiday in a 21st century world. It is not a harmless celebration of the old world meeting the new. It is the glorification of colonialism, a catch-all term for the social maladies that no longer plague a diverse and progressive society: paternalism, exploitation, coercive conversion. Yet it
Martin Kennedy | Wednesday, April 3, 2019
After a year-long hiatus from production, the hit comedy and three-consecutive time winner of the Emmy for Best Comedy Series “Veep” has returned for its seventh and final season. “Veep” stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (whose fight against breast cancer delayed production of the show) as the dysfunctional and accidental Vice President-turned-President Selina Meyer, who tries to
Jack Zinsky | Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Considering all the attention the Viewpoint section is being given lately, I hope I can provide some fascinating content before the next leggings saga erupts. While leggings were the talk of Notre Dame’s campus, the talk of the country has been the Mueller report and its total vindication of President Trump. For over two years,
Jin Kim | Monday, February 4, 2019
We’re barely a month into 2019, but judging from the news cycle in recent days you’d think it was 2020. Indeed, with ambitious Democrats lining up to announce their bids for the White House, 2019 is starting to look a lot like the new 2020. But if it feels way too early to be talking
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Few people would defend corruption. And those few happen to be immensely wealthy. Multiple narratives are being told in this country about corruption, but it’s exceedingly easy to tell where they are coming from — just follow the money. Let’s start with a baseline definition of corruption, because America seems to have lost track of
Letter to the Editor | Monday, November 19, 2018
It all started with Gwen Stefani. Donald Trump was mad NBC was paying “The Voice” star more than he was getting paid for hosting “The Apprentice,” so he decided to run for President — his second time after a half-hearted attempt in 2000 — and booked two venues to follow his now infamous ride down
Raymond Ramirez | Friday, October 26, 2018
It’s an old trope of visual comedy, right up there with slipping on a banana peel: a person, attempting to look dignified, strolls onto the scene trailing a ribbon of toilet paper off the heel of their shoe. The most recent performer to employ this sure laugh-getter was U.S. President Donald Trump, who recently walked