Tagged - american politics
2020 Election
Early voting: Good idea, bad execution
People deserve a safe and relatively easy way to cast their ballots. Creating situations with limited locations and long lines is clearly not providing them that option.
Alumni
PA Attorney General reflects on his time at UR
But after deciding against pre-med and getting cut from the basketball team, Shapiro decided to try out student government, spending his first year as a senator. That spring, “when they were taking nominations for president, I said ‘you know what, I love this school, I care deeply about these issues [...] I’ll give it a shot.’”
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2020 Election
What’s in a euphemism?
Since Reagan, the American right wing has used euphemisms to disguise cruelty under nonsense phrases, shift public discourse, and couch unacceptable actions in a kind of abstract political mystique.
2020 Election
Absentee voting matters
If you’re eligible, you can participate in something larger than yourself.
american politics
A tale of two cities
Rochester champions people who fought for the less fortunate, and perhaps that makes it more able to accept that things need to change, rather than simply looking the other way.
2020 Election
YoUR vote matters
This story will stay on our front page until Nov. 3, because the Campus Times believes voting is that important. Yes, you need to protest and show up for causes you care about, but it means nothing without the follow-through. Participate in the democratic systems that facilitate change.
american politics
What the Woodward tapes reveal about Trump’s persona
The presidency has become a show that we pay with our votes to see.
all lives matter
All Lives Matter excludes those who need it most
In the United States, uplifting “all” too often means prioritizing white uplift.
american politics
A country of compromise
Debating and compromising over the value and autonomy of black bodies on the Senate floor is a well-established tradition of the U.S. government — a tradition which fearlessly and unabashedly screams to black America, “We do not believe in your humanity.”
