by Franklin Morley Leave the funding for renewables alone The budget sequester is armed and ready as March 1st approaches, the newest deadline for Congress to try and prevent the massive spending cuts set to trigger if no deal is made. The priorities are the economy and the deficit, and [...]
by Joseph Seeley For wary neighbors sharing the same peninsula, serious diplomacy is needed to ensure long- term peace. Taking North Korea seriously is a challenge for many who see the hermetic state as little more than a curious Cold War relic. Only recently, North Korean political leader Kim Jong- [...]
by Jackson Tetmeyer People do not generally know enough about the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which Obama signed into law in January. Even though its proponents, such as Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Michigan), say it makes us safer, the Act in its current form is a [...]
by Taylor Rosecrans The tight race between incumbent Rep. Jim Matheson (D) and Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love (R) in Utah’s 4th district this fall made national headlines. The district isn’t really significant; it is basically fly-over country. So, why the clamor? First, it was very likely that a six-term [...]
by Austin McCullough When thinking of North Korea, most people’s immediate thoughts have to do with military aggression, secrecy, and the 38th Parallel. Why do we think of these political identifiers first, and not of the oppressed and suffering people of that nation? I want to argue that we ought [...]
by Jordan Wilson, Middle East Studies and Arabic (double major) After the recent UN addition of Palestine as a non-member observing state and a violent, eight-day conflict between the Israeli government and Hamas, the Israeli- Palestinian question has once again reminded us of the struggle for regional peace. Peace negotiations [...]
by Johnny Harris, Senior International Relations It’s a fair question to ask given the recent (and not so recent) gun violence in America. What does your right to bear arms—ensured by the Constitution—really mean? For many Americans the Second Amendment is a foundational right, ordained by our Founding Fathers and sustained [...]
Don’t You Deserve to Know the People Behind those Annoying Political Ads? by Alex Chandler Admit it: you defriended at least one person on Facebook during the election because of all their annoying political posts. You knew the election was important. You were invested in who won. You even enjoyed [...]
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” —Douglas Adams We know you have ideas for articles in your head. We also know you usually need a deadline to force you to put it on paper. So here are all the deadlines [...]
The recent budget compromise roped off $23 billion of next year’s budget for Pell Grants, while maintaining the $5,500 maximum yearly payout. But is it fiscally responsible for the government to continue awarding Pell Grants? What should be the government’s role in funding higher education?
BYUPR: You cover the GOP primaries for BuzzFeed, but you’re also plugged in to the Mormon community. What’s been your favorite part of that so far? Coppins: Of all the unlikely alliances formed during this “Mormon Moment,” my favorite has been the making of CNN’s Anderson Cooper into an LDS folk hero. [...]
Mormons have always had a tenuous relationship with the US government—at times in opposition to Washington, at others its strongest supporters. As of late, the Huntsman and Romney campaigns have stirred a new debate over Mormons and their beliefs, and whether Americans are comfortable with them holding sway in the [...]
I was going to write a terrific article outlining all the practical reasons why increased labor mobility is a vastly more effective way of improving the welfare of the world’s poor than any other conceivable development project. But in the last issue, David Cramer wrote that article better than I [...]
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