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(12/06/16 6:59am)
Cuba held a two-day memorial on Monday and Tuesday for Fidel Castro, who led the country for 49 years before officially ceding power to his younger brother, President Raúl Castro, in 2008. While some world leaders and Cubans criticize the elder Castro for risking nuclear conflicts and treating his people — especially dissidents — harshly, others praise his revolutionary policies, particularly those involving healthcare and education. What do you think of Castro, and how do you think his death will impact the future of Cuba?
(12/06/16 5:52am)
The world seemed headed on a very different path in August 2013, when I first entered Brandeis University. Barack Obama was in his fifth year in the White House, Edward Snowden had just become a household name, Ted Cruz was an ascendant standard-bearer and Nate Silver was an unbeatable poll-watching god.
(12/06/16 5:50am)
What really makes Donald Trump’s impending presidential term so grave a prospect? It is that for many groups in America — and the world at large — the man is the common villain in most of their narratives.
(12/06/16 5:48am)
For nearly a month, the shock of Donald Trump’s victory has left many American Jewish communities asking themselves the following question: Where do we go from here? The vast majority of our community strongly opposed Trump’s candidacy. In light of his victory, though, some groups have floated the possibility of compromise, of “giving him a chance,” a strategy which largely rests upon the theory that a Trump presidency will be good for Israel. Indeed, a Dec. 2 Newsweek opinion piece suggested that Trump has taken more pro-Israel stances than those of President Obama and that Trump’s presidency could offer “an ever closer bond between the two countries … beneficial to both parties. … [Thus,] we should judge our new president on his actions in Office and not on the tone of his campaign.”
(12/06/16 5:44am)
It has been four weeks since America chose Donald Trump as its 45th president, and the somber feeling of shock still has not gone away. As a Hillary Clinton Campaign Fellow, I dedicated over a year to her campaign, and to say I was shocked on election night would be an understatement. As an undocumented student currently under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals, the results of this election will cause direct harm to my ability to succeed in this nation. President-elect Trump has stated multiple times that, on his first day in office, he will reverse executive actions made by Obama, according to a Nov. 11 New York Times article. DACA is an executive action during Obama’s term designed to shield and protect from deportation the 1 to 3 million children who were brought illegally to the U.S. when they were very young by their parents. It will likely be terminated come Jan. 20. What does this mean? 740,000 DACA recipients, including myself, will now fear deportation and the loss of work opportunities. Social security numbers and driver’s licenses may also be revoked. However, now is not the time to stand idly by. Liberals and advocates for DACA recipients have a little less than two months to organize and prepare for the arduous road that is ahead.
(11/22/16 5:19am)
Upon conclusion of the review it launched on Sept. 9, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a statement on Tuesday, reporting its conclusion that the issue of the Dakota Access oil pipeline warrants “additional discussion and analysis.” Proponents of the pipeline cite the creation of construction jobs, increased energy independence in the U.S. through more production of crude oil and an expected boost for the economy as reasoning for their support. However, members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and climate activists protest the pipeline as a cultural and environmental threat. What do you think of the Dakota Access pipeline, and how do you think the USACE should proceed?
(11/22/16 5:16am)
Since its founding, Brandeis’ identity has been shaped, in large part, by its Jewish roots and the sizeable Jewish presence on campus.
(11/22/16 5:15am)
This past weekend, the University reached a new athletic peak: placing two teams in the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament.
(11/22/16 5:13am)
Climate change is real, and it is caused by human activities — but Donald Trump is employing a climate-change skeptic, Myron Ebell, as head of his Environmental Protection Agency transition team, and that will only make global warming worse.
(11/22/16 5:12am)
As America grapples with the consequences of electing an orange moron, the collective news media has had more than a little navel-gazing to do. Dozens of thinkpiece postmortems these last few weeks have questioned how almost all mainstream reporters got it so very wrong. How could we lull liberal America into such complacency, all the while ignoring an invisible conservative revolt?
(11/22/16 5:10am)
In recent years, the liberal arts education has been criticized for being impractical and distinctly non-vocational. The claim that reading Homer’s “Odyssey” and debating Kant’s ethical theories do not lend themselves to a career in engineering or medicine is undeniable, critics of liberal arts education say. Especially following the 2008 stock market crash, politicians and activists have promoted what is now amounting to a surge in science, technology, engineering and math education.
(11/22/16 5:09am)
Alexander Hamilton begins Federalist Paper number 68 by declaring that the agreed-upon mode of selecting the nation’s executive was uniquely uncontroversial and had received only the “slightest mark of approbation from its opponents.” Hamilton goes on to laud the compromise for its fundamental purpose: thwarting the efforts of tyrannical, popularity-driven politicians and instead entrusting knowledgeable, trustworthy electors to make the decision for the country. Today, the same system is being excoriated for its failure to fulfill this purpose.
(11/15/16 4:51am)
(11/15/16 4:47am)
In light of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election and Republicans’ victory in Congress, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker has once again suggested that Republicans should eliminate the filibuster from the Senate, according to a Nov. 9 CNN article. As justification, Walker cites the electorate’s eagerness to have a productive legislative branch, but Democrats in the Senate may view the filibuster as one of the only ways to block or delay legislation with which they disagree. What do you think of Senate filibuster, and do you agree with Walker’s suggestion?
(11/15/16 4:11am)
Animal abuse comes in many shapes and forms. I tend to live by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals motto: “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any way.” On Nov. 2, PETA debuted a controversial video that reflects this message. The ad features survivors of rape and sexual assault who echo messages of feeling worthless and powerless before their assaulters. At the end of the video, the women hold up signs with images of a cow who has to go through a similar horror. The ad ends with one message: “Every year, billions of animals are born into the meat, egg, and dairy industry. Almost all of them are a result of forcible artificial insemination. Almost all of them are a result of rape. Don’t participate. Go vegan.”
(11/15/16 4:09am)
Arizona’s Maricopa County takes a harsh stance on illegal immigration ― but not so harsh as to re-elect the infamous Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
(11/15/16 4:08am)
It’s morning in America again — a new day. I can’t help but be reminded of the political climate in Israel when Prime Minister Menachem Begin won for the first time. The Labor Party elite was sure of its impending victory and its ability to maintain control over the government, and it downplayed the role of the working class. Just as the Likud Party shocked the Labor elite in 1977, the victory of Donald Trump in America’s 2016 presidential election shocked America.
(11/15/16 4:07am)
In a September opinion piece for the Justice, I argued that Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers ought not to have protested police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem. My argument, in a nutshell, was that refusing to honor a symbol of America was not a good way to protest racism because, while factions of the country might be racist, the very core beliefs and values of the country were ones that were in line with racial equality. “If I were born in a country I believed to be, at its very core, fundamentally unjust,” I wrote in the piece, “it would be fine and even preferable not to stand for the anthem. Yet, to me, the United States is not convincingly that country.” Nov. 8 changed my mind, not only about Kaepernick’s protest but also about the heart of this country.
(11/09/16 7:58am)
Corrections appended.
(11/09/16 7:55am)
The Justice asked the president of Brandeis Democrats, Jacob Edelman ’18, and the president of Brandeis Conservatives, Mark Gimelstein ’17, about a variety of polarizing issues. Their back-and-forth dialogue about immigration is included below.
