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Will the real McCain please stand up?
By Michal Zapendowski | April 12The presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has been sinking in the polls faster than the Titanic.
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South of the Waffle House line
By Michal Zapendowski | January 24Before the War of Northern Aggression, the South had its peculiar institution. And while those days may be gone with the wind, the days of peculiar Southern institutions shall not be gone so long as the South perseveres in its final, institutionalized bastion of separation. The North today has plenty ...
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Michal Zapendowski '07: An exit strategy for Iraq
By Michal Zapendowski | November 26Over 3,700 Iraqi civilians were killed in ethnic violence in October. That's an annual rate of nearly 45,000. No one needs to be told that Iraq cannot afford to maintain this status quo. What these figures should tell us, however, is that the effort to bring stability to Iraq has taken on a new urgency. ...
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Michal Zapendowski '07: Death: the elephant in the room
By Michal Zapendowski | October 31As a child, I spent endless hours terrified of my own death.
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Michal Zapendowski '07: The Mexican-American War
By Michal Zapendowski | October 3Last week, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate, including New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, joined forces with Republicans to vote 80 to 19 to begin construction of an expensive set of Berlin Wall-like barriers across this nation's southern border. This measure was not attached to any other proposals ...
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How to make Democrats squirm in 2008
By Michal Zapendowski | September 18Normally, it would be too early to talk about the 2008 election, but with a lame duck in the Oval Office, people's minds start to wander. Conventional wisdom tells us that both major parties already have their frontrunners - New York Sen. Hillary Clinton on the blue side, and a duel between Arizona ...
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The Samuel L. Jackson write-in campaign
By Michal Zapendowski | August 30I already suspected that Samuel L. Jackson was a pure badass after I saw him in "Pulp Fiction," but after watching him handle a plane full of snakes in the aptly titled "Snakes on a Plane," I emerged with a newfound respect for Jackson's uncanny ability to keep his cool and provide leadership in a time ...
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Michal Zapendowski '07: Rethinking minimum wage
By Michal Zapendowski | July 15Last October, the U.S. Senate rejected a raise to the federal minimum wage, which, despite inflation, has remained unchanged at $5.15 per hour for the past decade. Republicans in the Senate defied the majority of Americans who, according to polls, favor raising the minimum wage. Just four of the 55 ...
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Michal Zapendowski '07: Revolution spreads to Peru
By Michal Zapendowski | April 17The protagonist of our story, Lt. Colonel Ollanta Humala, was born in 1963 in Ayachuco, a city lodged in the Andes symbolically halfway between Peru's capital, Lima, with its affluent upper class and its teeming slums, and the old capital of the Incan Empire, Cusco. Like Evo Morales, who ran a successful ...
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Michal Zapendowski '07: How to win the war on terror
By Michal Zapendowski | April 13Comparing America's imbroglio in Iraq to the Vietnam War has become cliché, but there is another conflict for which the Saigonese simile is far better suited: the war on terror. Insofar as it can be understood as a conflict between two protagonists, the war on terror is clearly a counter-insurgency ...
