After the most recent Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings showed an increase in spending by former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s campaign committee, journalists and political pundits began speculating about Weiner’s chances of success should he run for city-wide office in 2013. Anthony Weiner, after serving in Congress for twelve years, resigned in January of 2011 after admitting to using Twitter to share sexually suggestive pict...
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As the number of Syrian refugees climbs rapidly beyond 1 million, the need for increased funding to address the crisis is obvious, but the motivation for nations to actually provide those funds is not. The United Nation’s relief plan requests just over a billion dollars to fund its operations from January 2013 to June 2013, and a variety of donors pledged to meet those needs. Yet somehow, the latest report on the inter-agency regional res...
On January 15, 2013, Rachel Maddow revealed that Republican-controlled legislatures in several states where President Barack Obama won in the last election are considering changing the way they send delegates to the Electoral College. Instead of electing the president on a winner-take-all basis, these states propose splitting their electoral votes proportionally based on which candidate wins a majority in each individual congressional distric...
...the Malian central government, and are fighting for control of territory and resources in Azawad, Mali’s vast mineral-rich northern region. The growing Islamist presence in the region has caused alarm in the West. In January 2013, France sent several hundred troops to Mali, and has driven Ansar Dine and AQIM out of the northern strongholds of Gao, Kidal, Konna, and Timbuktu. Though the Islamists have been driven underground, the instability in A...
...the effects of anthropogenic climate change, but unwillingness to take tangible measures to further this end, we must look for domestic goals. Recently, Congress extended the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit through 2013 as part of the much debated “fiscal cliff” talks. A tax break of 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour of wind energy produced is expected to maintain 37,000 American jobs this year. It will also help create more jobs in the wind...
...s at best, and barbaric at worst. Whether or not one was concerned with the political implications of extra-judicial assassinations, the jingoistic fervor of the crowds chanting “USA! USA!” was cause for dismay. On April 8th, 2013, another despised political figure, for obviously different reasons, passed away. After Margaret Thatcher’s death, though, it appeared to many that it was the Leftists who were guilty of reacting with morbid barbarism....
...ation on indirect interests, Chinese lobbyists have managed to convince former Prime Minister Kleist that Beijing could be Greenland’s angel in the near future. The Chinese question was undoubtedly a core issue in Greenland’s 2013 general election. Leading the opposition to PM Kleist’s Chinese-backed, pro-independence policy, Aleqa Hammond, head of the social-democratic party Siumut (“Forward!”), argued that China’s soft power domination over Gre...
...d, however, is whether members of both political parties work to creating substantive immigration reform. Scott L. Minkoff, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College Taylor Nagel Barnard College, 2013 Leah Rosenberg Barnard College, 2013 The election-induced reemergence of a national discussion about immigration policy has centered on the electoral prospects of Republican candidates and – to a lesser extent –...
...isis began earlier this year when Washington announced that it would trim the military budget by $450 billion over the next 10 years. Now that the JSCDR has failed to make a deal, further defense cuts will kick in starting in 2013. These automatic sequestrations will range anywhere from a few hundred billion to nearly $1 trillion over the next decade. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the regular defense budget will be cut by an addit...
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