With less than a month until the presidential election, Republicans are rushing to confirm a new Supreme Court justice. Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a highly partisan judge who President Donald Trump nominated to entrench conservative values and his personal political agenda into the Supreme Court; this confirmation would create an ultraconservative politically partisan Supreme … [Read more...] about Opinion: Judge Amy Coney Barrett Should Not Be Confirmed
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Opinion: Pepperdine Needs to Modernize its Christian Values
Art by Ally ArmstrongTo many, there are two different faces of Christianity. There are Christians who believe that homosexuality is a sin, women should obey their husbands and white people are the superior race. There are also Christians who believe God loves all his children equally.Both recent actions and old traditions place Pepperdine with the former rather than the … [Read more...] about Opinion: Pepperdine Needs to Modernize its Christian Values
Unite The Left And Right
Art by Sybil ZhangIn logic, a false dichotomy is one of the informal fallacies. It occurs when someone mistakenly believes there are only two possible outcomes, when in fact there are many. Problems are rarely ever binary. They are complex, and limiting them to only two mindsets severely limits people's ability to actually solve the problem. In many cases, a solution will not … [Read more...] about Unite The Left And Right
The Women’s March Accepted all but Political Diversity
Graphic by Nate BartonIf there is one lesson that Americans learned in 2016, it's that we have failed at building political bridges. Less than 25 percent of Americans talk to people with whom they politically disagree, according to Jill Lepore in “The State of the Presidential Debate,” published Sept. 16, 2016 by The New Yorker. That statistic is telling and, … [Read more...] about The Women’s March Accepted all but Political Diversity
Stem Cell Research Still Opposed
Art by Jessica RagsdaleDr. Eugene Gu was well on his way to a breakthrough that could save lives, according to Laura Bassett's article, "How House Republicans Derailed a Scientist Whose Research Could Save Lives," published Nov. 3 by The Huffington Post. In 2014, Gu was the first person to successfully implant the heart and kidney of a human fetus into a rat. Although that … [Read more...] about Stem Cell Research Still Opposed