Crimson staff writer
Jacob J. Cedarbaum
Latest Articles
Opinion
Don’t Cut Communities
By Jacob J. Cedarbaum •
The scope of proposed Republican cuts targets only the small fraction of the federal budget that covers domestic discretionary spending and the cuts there are dramatic and reprehensible.
Opinion
Living at Gunpoint
By Jacob J. Cedarbaum •
To be frank, I am sick and tired of reading in the Chicago Tribune each morning about another teenager mowed down by an automatic weapon, another child killed in a drive-by shooting, or another parent or grandparent slain as bystanders.
Opinion
Too Busy for Democracy?
By Jacob J. Cedarbaum •
Thank goodness that American men and women, from Susan B. Anthony to Martin Luther King Jr., were not too busy or disinterested to march, bleed, and, in some cases die, for the right to vote for every American citizen.