Early Thursday morning, President Barack Obama signed a bill that reopened the federal government and avoided a default on our nation’s debts. Yet again, a manufactured crisis was solved, and our elected officials can rest easy.
As an avid movie enthusiast, I seized the opportunity last weekend to watch “Captain Phillips,” the two-hour account of the 2009 hijacking of the USS Maersk Alabama by Somali Pirates.
“If God is so caring and great, why is there suffering in life?”
Madonna is officially banned from the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
David Coleman was named the new president of the College Board last summer and, thanks to him, the board is debuting a reconstructed SAT in 2015. The SAT has long been a poor excuse for a college-readiness exam. This is especially true of the essay section, which came under heavy fire at a September press conference filled with high school and university faculty from across the country. They told Coleman in no uncertain terms how detrimental the essay portion has become for students. For the first time, the College Board is listening.
Many would consider America to be one of the most religious countries on Earth.
This past Thursday, I attended an event hosted by CAMERA and UF Hillel titled “Less Hamas, More Hummus.”
What I am about to say might not win me any friends at the Alligator, but I must be frank: The current state of American journalism is doing its part to destroy American democracy.
He’s reached worldwide fame while preserving his anonymity, putting the spotlight on the underground street-art scene.
Today, the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded.
Obviously, there aren’t many people happy with what’s happening in Washington right now. And because we live in a democracy, citizens can actually hold the members of Congress responsible for the shutdown — but we probably won’t.
Public opinion polls consistently show Americans are frustrated with the disproportionate influence large corporations and extremely wealthy individuals have on our government and political process.
On Oct. 1, I began a search for the online market known as the Amazon of drugs: the Silk Road. I had heard stories about this place before from friends — and friends of friends — whose experience with drugs and technology far exceeded my own.
Haters will always hate. These days, bashing politicians and journalists has become en vogue. Critics forget that our representatives uphold the world’s greatest democracy by toiling night and day to represent a helpless minority: corporate executives. Having a media subservient to the powerful is also vital to our prosperity.
The federal government is being held hostage by a small cabal of the Republican Party whose popularity is on the decline. Rep. Ted Yoho is one of the 80 Republicans in the House of Representatives who signed onto Rep. Mark Meadows’ memo to Speaker John Boehner calling for the Affordable Care Act to be defunded through the budget.
Amateur hour is on full display in our nation’s capital — or, to be more precise, amateur week. The government remains in shutdown mode while the president refuses to budge on Obamacare, Republicans do not have an endgame in sight and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid name-calls and refuses to negotiate with the House.
Most of us adore “Sex and the City,” but aligning ourselves with the show means characterizing ourselves as vapid, materialistic or at least naive. Why is this series viewed as nothing more than a guilty pleasure?
Baby boomers often call millennials lazy, entitled and narcissistic. If you believe them, then you’d think the country is going to hell in a handbasket when we’re in charge. But have boomers looked into a mirror lately?
Every Fall we take our annual pilgrimage to Jacksonville to witness the “War for the Oar,” also known as Florida-Georgia. Each year, Gators get to experience and enjoy the city of Jacksonville but are usually confronted with difficulty getting around one of the nation’s largest cities by land area.
It could happen to anyone — you had one too many beers, forgot to turn on your headlights on the way home and got stopped by police. Next thing you know, you’re in the county jail, grimacing into a camera — your very first “mugshot.”
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