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Columns/Opinion/Popular Science

Disappearing Doctors: A Shortage of Physicians May Burden Our Health Care System in the Near Future

What does the Affordable Care Act — aka Obamacare — mean to you? Is it a long-overdue promise of universal health care?…

September 26, 2012
Opinion/Staff Editorials

Where’s the Policy? Candidates Leave Us Guessing

President Obama and Governor Romney each seek to cast 2012 as the most important election year in modern memory — Obama by…

September 13, 2012
Opinion/The Swarthmore Conservative

Forget Politics, and Let’s Talk Issues: Romney’s Plan for America

Four years ago, Obama ran a campaign about changing the tone of politics, crystallized in his dazzling Invesco Field convention speech by…

September 6, 2012
Columns/Opinion/The Nascent Neoliberal

Inherit the Wind: Obama and the economy

As legend has it, Rip van Winkle woke up from a 20-year snooze to find America had won the Revolutionary War. Colonial…

August 30, 2012
Columns/Opinion/Popular Science

Mars Rover inspires wonder … and budget cuts

You couldn’t have missed it. Curiosity — NASA’s $2.5 billion dollar planetary rover that was years in the making — was an…

August 30, 2012
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Opinion/Staff Editorials

Game Change 2012: our stakes in the upcoming election

Staff Editorial As we plod through the Republican primaries and steadily approach the 2012 presidential election, several key issues continue not only…

April 26, 2012
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Columns/Opinion/The Swarthmore Conservative

Changing the operation of today’s American government

What if government operated like a business? We would have more efficient delivery of services, programs that do not work would be…

April 19, 2012
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Opinion/Staff Editorials

The “Buffet Rule” and the politics of taxation

Staff Editorial Isolating the multitude of inequalities that are inherent to our contemporary social structures is a reasonably effortless task. From health…

April 19, 2012
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Columns/Opinion/The Nascent Neoliberal

Supreme Court “partisanship” severely overblown

Supreme Court is a tempting target. It’s easy to spot the justices, their black robes giving them away against Washington’s white marble.…

April 12, 2012
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Columns/Opinion/The Swarthmore Conservative

Overturning Obamacare is not ‘judicial activism’

What do you do when you are a sitting president, your reelection campaign is just beginning, and there is a high likelihood…

April 5, 2012
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