Net neutrality Aimee Trujillo and Johnathan Bowes November 17, 2014 6 Comments Super Tuesday columnists Johnathan Bowes '15 and Aimee Trujillo '15 take on net neutrality. While there is a broad consensus that the Internet must remain impartial, the two disagree on the political... Read More »
Election 2014: Analysis and foreshadowing Veronica Anorve and Johnathan Bowes November 10, 2014 3 Comments Johnathan Bowes '15 and Veronica Anorve '17 analyze the results of the 2014 midterm election. While Anorve attributes the Democrats' loss to low turnout, Bowes points to ideals. In the end, however,... Read More »
What we mean by ‘never again’ AZ Gordon October 19, 2014 1 Comment This is the quandary we face in preventing the cycle of mass killing. It is not always easy to justify humanitarian missions when it seems not to follow our strategic interests. Yet time and time... Read More »
The “unreal” can still help to hurt: Literature must inform ISIS policy Mina Shah September 30, 2014 0 Comments It would be smart to look to literature, leveraging its ability to allow us to empathize with dissimilar emotional states to our own. If we better understand what we might consider to be warped... Read More »
Super Tuesday: Should we attack ISIS? Johnathan Bowes and Veronica Anorve September 29, 2014 1 Comment Super Tuesday columnists Veronica Anorve '17 and Johnathan Bowes '15 debate strategies to attack ISIS. Both support limited airstrikes, but Bowes warns especially of action in Syria. Read More »
We’re back: Why Congress stood down over airstrikes against ISIS Winston Shi September 29, 2014 0 Comments After fits and starts of intermingled hope and despair, America is back in the Middle East. President Obama has made his case to America, the United Nations and the world that airstrikes against the... Read More »
The (police) dogs of war Johnathan Bowes August 18, 2014 1 Comment Last week, President Obama announced the authorization of immediate, indefinite airstrikes against the Islamic State (of Iraq and the Levant, known varyingly as IS or ISIS/ISIL), bringing the U.S.... Read More »
Students demonstrate for workers’ rights outside President Obama’s Wal-mart speech Andrew Vogeley May 12, 2014 3 Comments On Friday, about 20 Stanford joined a group of 300 people demonstrating outside of the Mountain View Wal-Mart where President Obama was giving a private speech about climate change. Read More »