Saturday, April 20, 2024
Photo by Hope Patti On Thursday, Ramapo welcomed Franco Pavoncello, the President of John Cabot University in Rome and a professor of political science, to lead a presentation in the York Room on “Lessons Learned from Contemporary Italian Politics.” The discussion focused on the United States' standing as a world super power […]
Photo Courtesy of Michael Vadon, Flickr Creative Commons This election season has been one of the most unpredictable in American history and has seen candidates seemingly come out of nowhere to defy the political process. In the case of one candidate in particular — Donald Trump — basic human decency […]
Photo by Pauline Park The Women’s Center hosted an event on Wednesday for students to address diversity and the social climate on campus. This event was the first of their “coffee talk” series, with this one properly titled, “Coffee Talk: #blacklivesmatter – Campus Climate at Ramapo.” In a packed room, […]
Photo Courtesy of Matt Gagnon, Wikipedia With the recent happenings in the presidential election, the topic of political correctness has once again reared its head. A recent poll conducted by Farleigh Dickinson University found that 68 percent of Americans agree that political correctness is a big problem for the nation. […]
Recently, Israel has requested an increase in annual U.S. defense aid. Its current aid package provides $3 billion annually; this is set to expire in 2017, according to Reuters. Reuters says Israel is vying for an annual $2 billion increase in military aid; this raises Israeli annual aid to $5 […]
Photo courtesy of United States Department of State Last week’s “SNL” spoof of the Democratic debate featuring Bernie Sanders (Larry David), Jim Webb (Alec Baldwin) and Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon), has been the talk of all things political in social media. And while there was much to admire about the […]
Photo Courtesy of Kate Sumbler, Flickr Creative Commons On a recent reporting assignment, I went around asking Ramapo students if they had watched the Oct. 13 CNN Democratic presidential debate and what their opinion on it was if they had one. I was somewhat surprised to find that very few […]
Photo Courtesy of Lawrence OP, Flickr Creative Commons In recent months, following the Kim Davis controversy and Pope Francis’s visit to the United States, we have, as a nation, begun to question the role religion should play in society — most notably in the political arena. It is important to […]
Photo courtesy of United States Senate, Wikipedia On Monday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) became the first major candidate to officially announce that he will be running for president in the 2016 election. During his speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., he outlined his core values of liberty and Christianity, as […]
Photo courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert, Wikimedia Creative Commons The decades long feud between Cuba and America is far from over considering there are still substantial differences between the nations and the ideas that each country’s citizens hold dear. However, after an announcement by President Obama in late 2014, the push to […]
