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(02/21/20 5:55am)
For many people with an inkling for American political history, the prospect of an election between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump harkens back to 1972 — George McGovern vs. Richard Nixon.
(02/19/20 1:32am)
Former Vice President Joe Biden has confounded and baffled voters again by taking yet another opportunity to remind them he is not, and will never, be running for president. This is the second time throughout the primaries he blamed his poor performance on the fact he isn’t actually running for president.
(02/12/20 4:53am)
Daniel Kilgore is one of two Democrats challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Steve Stivers for Ohio District 15 in 2020. Stivers is a juggernaut in District 15, and his reelection seems inevitable. Kilgore’s campaign isn’t just a longshot, it’s nearly unthinkable. In fact, according to FiveThirtyEight, it’s a 10% chance at best.
(02/07/20 3:40am)
It happens almost every day — I’ll be scrolling through Facebook, trying to read my news, when an article from news source The Onion comes up.
(01/29/20 11:32pm)
On Wednesday, the Bernie Sanders campaign announced a concert in collaboration with The Strokes. This is the most recent cosign from a big name musicians, following promotions from acts ranging from Killer Mike to Vampire Weekend. That move isn’t politically significant in any way, and it won’t cause him to win Iowa or anything, but it’s a beautiful collaboration of two of the most powerful voices of our millennia.
(01/28/20 2:39am)
Aaron Hernandez, disgraced NFL player and convicted murderer, was a case unlike any seen before him. By age 23, Hernandez had played in a Superbowl and secured a $40 million contract. At 25, he was a convicted murderer. And at 27, he was dead, found hanging in his Lancaster, Massachusetts, jail cell.
(01/15/20 2:42am)
The 2020 Golden Globes created a firestorm on social media last week, not because of controversial award winners, but because of Ricky Gervais’ opening monologue. In his final time hosting the Golden Globes, Gervais, a millionaire celebrity, spent seven minutes ridiculing millionaire celebrities for speaking about politics, by lecturing about politics himself.
(11/25/19 4:10am)
On Nov. 15, Ohio University faculty members met to discuss potential unionization in the midst of a looming budget crisis for the university. The numbers look bleak. Individual colleges have been asked to cut a total of $19.3 million. And those cuts are going to mainly come from laying off faculty members.
(11/12/19 3:22am)
Former Athens City Council At-Large incumbent Pat McGee was defeated in the Nov. 5 election. McGee, a champion of students’ rights, was the only non-Democrat on City Council.
(11/05/19 4:40am)
The Athens City Council and Mayoral debates seem light-years away from the 2020 national races. From the small crowds gathering into local libraries to the plastic folding tables, those elections seem like an entirely alien form of politics. But there is a lot to be learned from local races.
(10/16/19 3:58am)
The fourth DNC presidential debate was held Tuesday at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. For viewers who have watched previous debates, much of the rhetoric was the same, but there were several refreshing changes.
(10/08/19 3:28am)
Throughout September, activists and concerned citizens around the globe and right here in Athens took to the streets to raise awareness about our planet’s impending doom.
(09/29/19 11:31pm)
Incumbent Mayor Steve Patterson faced off against challenger Damon Krane in the Athens Public Library last week. Questions revolved heavily around economic concerns and infrastructure in Athens.
(09/16/19 2:02am)
In recent weeks, cases of a mysterious lung disease have popped up around the country. The illness has over 400 reported cases, and six have died. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has attributed the disease to vitamin E present in certain vaping devices.
(09/09/19 2:27am)
One of the core issues on nearly every politician’s platform is healthcare. There’s no escaping the reality of America’s lackluster healthcare system.
(09/03/19 1:41am)
When analyzing 2020 candidates, one word seems to come up frequently: electability. It has been the cornerstone of several candidates’ arguments for why they can beat President Donald Trump in the upcoming election. It is, in fact, most of Joe Biden’s campaign strategy.
(08/22/19 4:00am)
Athens’ beautiful location gives students more to do than just drink.
(08/09/19 6:16pm)
At face value, NBC’s sitcom Community and FX’s It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia are two very different shows. Community, which follows a mismatched group of friends at the subpar Greendale Community College, is a lighthearted sitcom safe for the whole family. It’s Always Sunny, however, examines the darker parts of the human psyche through a group of narcissists who own Paddy’s Pub, a dive bar in Philadelphia.
(04/09/19 12:13am)
The criminal justice system is broken – that’s no secret. The way it chews people up, perpetuates injustice and targets minorities and poor communities is well documented. However, the issue of democracy in relation to criminal justice has lesser known problems in Ohio.
(03/31/19 10:25pm)
Environmental protection as a result of climate change is one of the hottest issues in politics right now and will be a cornerstone issue for 2020 Democratic candidates. Environmental protection is a crucially important issue, but an issue you’ll rarely hear come up, if at all, is environmental justice.