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Category: Opinions

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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Monica Lewinsky’s unexpected redemption in a mob nation

22 September 2017
Christina Kirk
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Scrunchies. Faded denim. Overalls. Pokémon. Alternative music. All of these 1990s trends have resurfaced in the last few years with a better reputation than they…

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Forget Mars: Let’s Go To Venus

15 September 2017
Luke Lockhart
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 Since the end of the Apollo missions that put men on the moon, the people of the United States have had their eyes on what…

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Is War on the Horizon?

15 September 2017
Clare Kimmis
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North Korea claims to have developed a hydrogen bomb that can be loaded into an intercontinental ballistic missile. According to CNN, North Korea had a…

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A Word on Net Neutrality

15 September 2017
Zoe Spangler
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 How do you use the Internet? For laughs? For games? For research? The answer is yes. The Internet has penetrated virtually every aspect of our…

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State of the Hill: Would Sean Spicer Have Opened the Berlin Wall

14 April 2017
Luke Lockhart
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Not too long ago, there was another governmental entity that seemed to live in its own realm of truth denial and dizzying success: the Soviet…

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Trump’s salary donation is a publicity stunt

7 April 2017
Luke Lockhart
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There’s a zinger in the Biblical book of Matthew that goes, “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?”…

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AFE: Humans of Jewell

1 April 2017
Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe
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Following spring break I decided to interview one of the William Jewell College’s most well known figures to attain insight into the innermost functions of…

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