The Supreme Court voted 6-2 on June 29 on the case Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard College in a decision which determined that affirmative action in higher education violated the Equal Protections...
If you consider Lincoln’s entire career, you’ll see he wasn’t a problematic president and an entirely bad man — certainly not one unworthy of having a school named after him.
Award-winning author George Saunders revealed his behind-the-scenes process and tips when writing to a well-attended Tsai Performance Center audience as part of the Creative Writing Program’s Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer series Tuesday.
The LGBTQ community has a history of being been oppressed, ostracized and abused. Only recently have various sexualities and identities been embraced on a larger scale, starting with the first pride...
History — well, history done right — is simply a fair analysis of the past, an analysis that usually involves an argument. Whether the argument is stated outright or embedded in the presentation of...
In 1883, the 47th U.S. Congress enacted the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. This act set in stone a rule that positions of government should not be handed out to those who support a particular political...
On Jan. 10, President Barack Obama delivered his Farewell Address in his adoptive hometown of Chicago, Illinois. The soon-to-be former president thanked his staff, his family and his vice president...
With the idea of Donald Trump being the next chief executive of the free world finally beginning to sink in, we should turn our attention away from campaigns to impeach the man and start debating what...
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government professor Leah Rigueur gave a lecture, “Racing to the Top: Black Voters and the 2016 Election,” at Boston University’s African American...
You go to Arlington Cemetery to stand before the eternal flame that overlooks the Lincoln memorial. You walk up the slope in the thick, Washingtonian humidity that indicates spring is here and...
