On Oct. 25, the Southern Poverty Law Center published a “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists,” a manual that, antithetical to its aim, distorts, rather than illuminates, reality.
Though a boost in the minimum wage may be popular, the Earned Income Tax Credit for low- and middle-income workers is a superior alternative.
For many Americans, especially millennials, government and politics are replacing religion. Instead of attending to the dusty Bible on their bookshelves, frustrated voters are increasingly idolizing our political leaders as agents for great revolution and, perhaps, revelation.
On Aug. 1, the Movement for Black Lives coalition of over 50 organizations and partners released a comprehensive manifesto designed to eradicate systemic racism and its destructive symptoms, including economic insufficiency and discriminatory policing.
In his 1835 text “Democracy in America,” French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville was perhaps most captivated by what he dubbed America’s “equality of condition.” According to the First Principles Journal, de Tocqueville employed this phrase to refer not to “the literal material equality of all American citizens, but rather the universal assumption that no significance was to be accorded to any apparent differences—material, social, or personal.” This innate equality was initially affirmed in the Declaration of Independence’s “self-evident” “truth” that “all men are created equal.” Rather than signifying that citizens were promised equal outcomes, this clause expressed that all are born with equal dignity and guaranteed objective treatment before the law. Of course, the Founders’ 18th-century notion of equality was far from how we conceive the principle today.
Ridicule and immaturity have been the defining characteristics of this year’s presidential race.
Last semester, protests and rallies against racial inequity pervaded university campuses across the nation.
On Dec. 23, 2015, the Brandeis-Al-Quds Student Dialogue Initiative announced on its Facebook page that this March it will host five Palestinian Al-Quds students, one faculty member and one staff member at Brandeis.
On New Year’s Eve in the German city of Cologne, as many as 1000 male refugees are alleged to have sexually assaulted German women in the crowded town square.
Brandeis staff, student, and facilities members protest against merit delays
Fight breaks out at Springfest over presence of Israeli flag
A look towards the upcoming French Open
Team Mangok: Mangok Bol and other staff work to resettle Bol’s niece and nephews in the U.S.
Tara VanDerveer, women’s basketball legend, retires