Project 2025: Should We Be Worried?
In April 2023, The Heritage Foundation published a comprehensive 920-page plan for the next Republican president to “rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left,” according to Project…
Op-Ed: Governor Cuomo, From Hero to Zero
By Samantha Milowitz || Op-Eds Editor At the beginning of the pandemic, New York was hit the hardest; for months, I did not leave my New York City apartment out…
Editor Shares Newfound Hope in Election of Future Vice President Kamala Harris
By Ellyn Fritz || News Editor In my mother’s group chat with her college friends, one topic of conversation during the contentious days of the election was the recent New…
OP-ED: The State of The Republican Party and its Future
By Gianfranco Iaia || Contributing Writer While President Trump may no longer occupy the residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a couple of months, his ideological legacy will have a…
OP-ED: GOOD MORNING JOE
By Samantha Milowitz || Op-Eds Editor On the morning of November 7th, I woke up and Joe Biden was elected the 46th president of the United States. After four days…
F&M Model United Nations hosts talk on Brexit given by Professor Fontana
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer Photos courtesy of BBC.com Professor Fontana sought to answer the question, “What is Brexit?” this past Thursday in his presentation on Brexit, which was…
The 35th day of the partial government shutdown
By Max Sano || Staff Writer Friday, January 25th marked the 35th and final day of the government shutdown. 800,000 federal employees have been affected by this crisis, which is…
Leslie Hunter ‘96 spoke on experiences working as a female civil servant in D.C.
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer This past Monday, F&M’s Government Department and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department co-sponsored a talk given by Leslie Hunter, an F&M alumna who…
Mayoral candidate Kevin Ressler details struggles, benefits of running a local campaign
By Katherine Coble || News Editor For many young people, local government is an abstract concept. While American Millennials may rabidly follow the news on the Hill and in the…
Op-Ed: Republicans go nuclear to disrupt Democrats’ attempt at filibuster
By Nick Riebel || Staff Writer In what should be a surprise to no one, Senate Republicans have done the unprecedented and used the “nuclear option” to eliminate the filibuster…
Anti-corruption symbols feature significantly in citizen protests in Moscow, Russia
By Benjamin Grove || Layout Assistant In the past week, thousands of Russians have taken to the streets of Moscow, Russia’s capital and largest city, to rally against the corruption…
Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch, faces the Senate in three-day hearing
By Katherine Coble || News Editor This week has been an eventful one for Neil Gorsuch. The 49-year-old Colorado native and current appellate judge on the United States Court of…
Op-Ed: Republicans display lack of internal cohesion after healthcare defeat
By Nick Riebel || Staff Writer It’s pretty clear that, in addition to being corrupt, the Republican majority in Congress, under Trump’s and Paul Ryan’s leadership, is also quite incompetent.…
Steve Kornacki of MSNBC talks presidential election, future of politics in Trump era
By Katherine Coble || News Editor On Thursday, March 2, MSNBC political correspondent Steve Kornacki came to Franklin & Marshall College to speak about the current political climate in America.…
Yale theorist Hélène Landemore promotes open democracy, democratic experimentation
By Kimberly Givant || Editor-in-Chief On Tuesday, February 28, the Government Department at Franklin & Marshall College hosted Yale University professor and renowned political theorist Hélène Landemore, the 2017 Jerome…