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The United States Should Ratify the UN Arms Trade Treaty
By Joel Jaeger ’14, PoliticOle Columnist On April 2, 2013, the UN General Assembly adopted the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), a multilateral convention that for the first time places legally-binding...
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The Difference Between Pro-Life and Pro-Choice is Not So Simple
The author of this post has asked to remain anonymous. Writing about abortion has been on my mind for months. The issue of abortion has been on my heart for years. I want to make it clear from the...
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Why “Breaking” the Middle East is Simultaneously Disingenuous and Condescending
By Nick Stumo-Langer ’15 Last month, Politico Magazine released a magazine article titled “The Man Who Broke the Middle East.” It was written by former Bush national security advisor, Elliot Abrams....
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The Lost Potential of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Malaki
By: Nick Stumo-Langer ’15 Iraqi PM Nouri al-Malaki is, seemingly, on his way out of the Iraqi political scene. With damaged credibility and a startlingly stratified country, Maliki’s third bid for...
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Trading Opinions: Why Boeing’s Bank Needs to Go
By: Alec Paulson ’16 Photo courtesy of Google images The renewal of the Export-Import Bank’s charter continues to stir controversy among House and Senate Republicans in the weeks before its expiration...
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The Law Perverted: Musings on the Constitution
By Griffin Edwards ’17 (Courtesy of Twitter via College for America) “The Law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its former...
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America’s Police Problem: Collisions of Liberty and Safety
By Nick Bowlin ’16 (Picture taken via Twitter) Over the past month, Americans have closely followed the events in Ferguson, Missouri. The widespread protests that followed the racially charged shooting...
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The Equal Pay (Non)Debate
By Emma Whitford ‘18 Photo taken via Twitter Equal pay has become one of the driving issues of the 2014 midterm elections, and it seems that everyone, democrats and republicans alike, have been...
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ID at the Polls: Discrimination or Precaution?
By Griffin Edwards ’17 Anyone that attended Rev. Al Sharpton’s speech on St. Olaf’s campus this Wednesday will undoubtedly vouch for the fact that he made some really good points. I went in skeptical,...
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Ending Net Neutrality: A Primer
By Nick Stumo-Langer ’15 Net neutrality is the concept that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must treat all service consumer equally, regardless of bandwidth use. Currently, consumers and website...
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