Idrees M. Kahloon
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Delegates Unbound
Caucuses should go the way of superdelegates—straight to the dustbin of history.
Where Your UC Student Activities Fee Goes
In theory, most undergraduates at Harvard have a stake in UC funding policies. To finance student events, the College requests undergraduates pay a $75 UC Activities fee each academic year. Here is where their money goes.
Media and the Man
Put simply, the reason people are voting for Donald Trump is that people want to vote for Donald Trump.
Trumped Up
Bipartisanship has long been lionized, but its core assumption is that both parties have reasonable ideas that emerge from respectful differences of opinion.
Change You Can Temporarily Believe In
Though much remains for the establishment to fret about, it may just be that, these days, the silent and sullen majority stays home—dejected and demobilized, unenthused with the establishment but not wholeheartedly committed to its undoing.
Clinton on the Trail
Clinton seems to be drifting into a familiar panicky pattern that forebodes future setbacks: her fondness for employing family consiglieri to do the dirty work, as if none of the stink will ever make its way back to her.
Faculty Overwhelmingly Donate to Clinton
Ninety-one percent of contributions to current presidential candidates made by Harvard faculty, instructors, and researchers in 2015 went to former Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton.
Islam and Democracy
Countries with more references to Islam in their constitutions tend to have worse human rights and democracy records. But that may not necessarily be antithetical with liberal democracy.
The Placemat Problem
Presenting unglorified talking points not only wrongly attempts to stifle debate, but also stands in stark contradiction to the mission of the College to transform students “with exposure to new ideas, new ways of understanding, and new ways of knowing.”
Abstracting Terrorism
What cannot be debated is the increasingly common phenomenon of terror justified on the basis of Islam, a message that clearly attracts at least some within the Muslim community.
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