The Statesman

Students storm West Side Dining in protest of new meal swipe system

Rebecca Liebson and Jessica Chin • September 8, 2016

A small group of disgruntled students gathered outside of West Side Dining during Campus Life Time this past Wednesday to protest the new “swipe to enter” meal plan.

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I’m with her, unfortunately

Michael Kohut • August 24, 2016

I’m voting for Hillary Clinton. This doesn’t mean that I want Hillary Clinton to be president; to put it another way, #ImAgainstHim.

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The partisan politics of social media

Max Katz • April 20, 2016

The only thing I am sure of in this election is that I wish everyone I know would be a little bit more willing to talk about why they might be wrong.

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Sanders revisits the failed War on Drugs

Nick Zararis • April 19, 2016

It should be the accepted view that the War on Drugs was both a failure and founded on false pretenses.

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If the presidential candidates were drugs

Nick Zararis • April 18, 2016

To lighten the mood, let’s compare the different candidates to drugs.

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There is a plethora of poorly pandering politicians upon us

Nick Zararis • April 14, 2016

The pandering in this cycle is even more cringeworthy than usual because you have candidates so far removed from reality they don’t realize how foolish they look.

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The great academic rift in the Grand Old Party

Nick Zararis • March 29, 2016

We need an educated populous to properly participate in a representative democracy. This is where the divide in the Republican Party truly comes from.

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Book analyzes why Americans identify as independents

Andrew Goldstein • February 24, 2016

Yanna Krupnikov, an assistant professor in the political science department, published a book digging into why more Americans are identifying as independents.

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Political science professor forecasts Trump as general election winner

Christopher Cameron • February 23, 2016

A professor of political science at Stony Brook University has forecasted that Trump has a minimum 97 percent chance of winning the general election as the Republican nominee.

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In a general election, the Bern is just as electable as Clinton

Skyler Gilbert • February 8, 2016

At this point, the idea from the Clinton campaign that she is more likely to win in a general election matchup is lazy and unvetted.

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The reality of the debt-free college dream

Zach Rowe • November 17, 2015

Every Democratic nominee has a plan for some sort of debt-free college option. How can a student resist such an offer? It’s easier to resist than you think.

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Ice cream overlords hiding the truth of global cooling

Skyler Gilbert • November 9, 2015

Folks, we are on the verge of perhaps the greatest environmental catastrophe of our lifetimes: Global cooling.

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