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With Obama Re-elected, What Can We Expect?

Sean Zhang

With a margin as small as 2.8% of the popular vote and as large as 23.4% of the electoral college, Obama won the 2012 Presidential Election. With his re-election, what can we expect?

Presidential Debates: Overview

Sean Zhang

After a lackluster performance at the first debate, Obama came out trying to show a more stern side in the second presidential debate. Before the second debate, Obama was leading Romney almost 10 points in swing states like Ohio. After the debate, that gap quickly shrank. Here’s an analysis of why:

To Drill or Not to Drill

Shauna Bowes

Offshore drilling has once again come to the forefront of debate and discussion. It is time to face the controversy head on: to drill or not to drill? The only logical answer to that question is to drill, baby, drill.  

Republican Presidential Primaries

Shauna Bowes

It’s that time again—the Republican Presidential primaries are upon us. From Iowa to Florida, the Republican candidates have laid everything out on the table for the American nation.

Occupy Wall Street: Modern Revolution, or Aimless Chaos?

Emily Ferguson

Since September 17 of this year, protesters have occupied much of lower Manhattan, primarily Wall Street and Zucotti Park, demanding the end to corporate greed and a return to “true” democracy.

Occupy Wall Street? Just Stop, You Whiny Babies

Shauna Bowes

The American nation faces difficult times. With a struggling economy and high unemployment rates, many Americans face loss and hardship. Born out of these difficult times, the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movements arose to try to turn the economy around. However, the movements are disparate with two very different motives and strategies. 

We Are the 99%, But Why?

Tyler Blackmon

Unemployment at 9%.  A national debt at $15 trillion dollars (100% of GDP).  A burst housing bubble.  A budget crunch so severe that it has threatened to fling the United States back into a double-dip recession.  And yet, in the midst of all that financial chaos, the wealth in the United States has miraculously doubled in the last thirty years.