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President-elect Biden and former-president Eisenhower

Opinion: The progressive path takes time

Brenden Hill
December 8, 2020

In the post-New Deal era, conservatism and its exemplars were broadly discredited. President Eisenhower even went so far to call people who were still deeply rooted in conservatism crazy and out of touch.   Yet nearly a decade later Barry Goldwater, the champion...

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Opinion: The left’s attacks on conservative speech on campus hurts students

Angelo Pacheco
November 3, 2020

Our nation’s leftwing politics are plagued with a new trend of censorship and cancel culture against views they deem “hate speech,” leaving a stain on our country’s founding principle of free speech. Because of this shift, we’ve seen more attacks on conservatives around...

UMKC College Democrats meeting targeted by racist and homophobic “Zoom bombing”

UMKC College Democrats meeting targeted by racist and homophobic “Zoom bombing”

Kate Beilsmith
October 20, 2020

Unwelcome guests entered a UMKC College Democrats Zoom meeting using racist and homophobic slurs as their names on Oct. 5. According to Charisma Sewell, the campus representative for the College Democrats who was present at the incident, the offenders were blasting music...

Opinion: Appointing RBG’s successor: should it wait until after the election?

Opinion: Appointing RBG’s successor: should it wait until after the election?

Caleb Wilson
September 30, 2020

Following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, Republicans within the Senate, most notably Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, refused to hold hearings for a potential nominee. The move frustrated many Democratic lawmakers who found the decision to be obviously political....

Political Column: The value of foreign policy

Political Column: The value of foreign policy

Brenden Hill
September 23, 2020

If you watched the news, election coverage or debates, you would find it easy to forget that most of the president’s power relates to foreign policy, or that Congress should be more active when it comes to non-domestic issues. Nowadays, it’s common to have presidential...

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