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Category: Opinions

CRISPR: More Than Designer Babies

10 November 2017
Brianna Steiert
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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) technology has been the buzz of the scientific community over the past few years for its ability to…

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Extremism in American Politics: Part III

27 October 2017
Savannah Hawley
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In the U.S., partisan extremism has been on the rise since 1980. In order to investigate political extremism, we must examine some of its causes.…

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Extremism in American Politics: Part II

20 October 2017
Savannah Hawley
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In the U.S., partisan extremism has been on the rise since 1980 and has been growing more severe in recent decades. In order to investigate…

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Football and Trump: A Conversation Between Editors

6 October 2017
Jake Marlay
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Week three of the 2017 NFL season turned out to be a historic few days. Almost every team in some form or another decided to…

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Extremism in American Politics: Part 1

6 October 2017
Savannah Hawley
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In the U.S., partisan extremism has been on the rise since 1980 and has been growing more severe in recent decades. In order to investigate…

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Pulling Out of the Paris Climate Agreement

29 September 2017
Betsy Tucker
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On June 1, 2017, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would be working to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord as it stands over…

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The Use and Abuse of Science in Modern Politics

29 September 2017
Catherine Dema
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The politicization of science. The role of science in politics. Typically, when these concepts are addressed, emotions run high and people start defending their “sides.”…

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Staying in the Paris Climate Agreement

29 September 2017
Amy Mullen
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This June, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. will be leaving the Paris Climate Agreement. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)…

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Is Amazon’s HQ2 coming to Kansas City?

22 September 2017
Kristen Agar
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Based on total sales and market capitalization, Amazon.com, Inc. is the largest online retailer in the world. It was founded in July 1994 in Seattle,…

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