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Fey, as Palin, helped get youth demographic interested in politics

Here in Buenos Aires, Argentina, my only connection to the American world and the itty bitty (ha!) economic crises going on is the Internet and the bars...

Ethnicity-based costumes offend

In anticipation of one of history’s most influential elections, Pittsburghers emphasized a spirit of politics-based creativity this Halloween. Trick-or-treaters...

Predicting political activism

To most high school students, the football team’s record or the Homecoming King overshadow any need to understand politics. But for a short while, local...

SayWhat?

Previously on Dawson’s Creek: Our heroine, a bright-eyed, conflicted 20-something, decided not to return to Carnegie Mellon for her senior year of college....

The implications of a historic election

Barack Obama is young, charismatic, and hopeful about the future — just the sort of figure Americans were waiting to get behind, which is probably why...

Leadership Perspectives

About six months ago, I got into the elevator in the UC and pressed the “3” button. My fellow elevator-traveler, shocked, said he’d never seen anyone...

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