JOHN MCCULLOUGH, Opinions Editor Emeritus
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March 8, 2019
Senior John McCollough attends his first Winter Ball at Essex House where he makes some memories.
May 6, 2017
Emmanuel Macron made history as the first candidate not of a major party of the Fifth French Republic to win the first round of a Presidential election, carrying 24 percent of the vote to continue against...
February 24, 2017
On Jan. 27, a scheduled speaking engagement by former Breitbart editor Yiannopoulos Yiannopoulos at Berkeley was cancelled in response to widespread opposition and protests by Berkeley students, as well...
February 8, 2017
In 1916, Rosa Luxemburg declared that a world ravaged by war, disease and the rise of far-right populist currents had two options: build a new system in which the working class could control its own...
January 25, 2017
During the Republican primary season, the vast majority of media attention was intensely fixated on the eventual victor, President Donald Trump. Through the grueling months of pageantry and spectacle,...
November 16, 2016
In the early hours of Nov. 9, Donald J. Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election. This was a result completely unexpected by most of the media and the Democratic Party. In the midst...
November 4, 2016
Throughout this semester, we have analyzed the four main candidates of the 2016 Presidential Election (Clinton, Trump, Stein and Johnson) on individual issues relevant to the Fordham community. As the...
October 13, 2016
As the general election nears, The Observer will be running a series of articles on political issues that interest students. In our coverage, we will analyze each of the four presidential candidates’...
September 29, 2016
On Sept. 2, between 150 and 180 million Indian workers walked out of their jobs carrying red banners and calling for, among other things, a higher minimum wage and increased rights in the workplace....
September 27, 2016
As the general election nears, The Observer will be running a series of articles on political issues that interest students. In our coverage, we will analyze each of the four presidential candidates’...
September 16, 2016
In the aftermath of countless highly publicized shootings of civilians by police officers, such as those of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the actions of law enforcement have come under a greater...
September 16, 2016
As the general election nears, The Observer will be running a series of articles on political issues that interest students. In our coverage, we will analyze each of the four presidential candidates’...
August 26, 2016
As the general election nears, The Observer will be running a series of articles on political issues that affect students directly. In our coverage, we will analyze each of the four presidential candidate’s...
May 27, 2016
When Barack Obama came into the Oval Office after a landslide victory in the 2008 election, he did so with the promise that he would scale back the hawkish, neo-conservative foreign policy of the prior...
April 22, 2016
On April 3, the international community was rocked by a massive leak of 11 million documents—belonging to the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca—which point to tax evasion and money laundering on...
November 21, 2015
As anyone who has watched any mainstream news channel for even a minute in the past three months knows, Donald Trump is no fan of undocumented immigrants. His blustery, seemingly written-on-the-spot stump...
October 6, 2015
Three months ago, Jeremy Corbyn was almost denied entry into the leadership election of the British Labour Party due to not obtaining enough support from established members of Parliament. But on Saturday,...
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