POINT: Joe Lhota for Mayor
By RACHEL SHMULEVICH
I may not be a New York citizen (and therefore not eligible to vote for the next mayor), but it is incredibly important to me that the next...
Stop-and-frisk, the procedure in which a police officer pats down an individual suspected of carrying a concealed weapon, is a racist program that does little more than intimidate poor minorities,...
Guys, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. Because the world’s not going to end. I’m sorry to disappoint you.
The Mayans? Their calendar ended. They never predicted anything....
You might know it as catcalling, but let’s call it what it really is: street harassment. Or, sexual harassment that occurs on the street.
Any girl over the age of 13 has experienced street harassment...
Everyone's a comedian in an election year; it's every satirist's favorite season. It's just too easy. The lies, the gaffes, the grandstanding, the obvious pandering, the general public distaste for...
As a young enterprising college student in a sea of equally young, enterprising college students, I know that everyone is doing anything and everything they can to get ahead. So I do the same, which means...
The first of four presidential debates was held at the University of Denver, in Colorado, one of the main swing states in next month's election. Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney...
According to the Office of Institutional Research at FCLC, 33.9 percent of students identify as a minority, with Hispanic and Latino students making up the largest minority group at 15.4 percent for Fall...
In 2011, Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’77, donated $2 million to create an endowment for the Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre position...
“Hi, I’m Barack Obama, President of the United States. Ask me anything.” That’s the sentence that broke the Internet Aug. 29, when President Obama took to Reddit to answer questions...
Yes, Voting Integrity Must Be Protected
By WILL BERGESCH
The squabbling about the voter ID laws that has gone on for weeks has left me bewildered. These laws now require some type of official ID to...
The recent years in the US has been plagued by gun violence. In 2007, 32 people were murdered at Virginia Tech. At Fort Hood in 2009, 55 people were shot by a former Army psychologist, leaving 13...
By NINA GUIDICE
Recently, Rick Santorum said— in Puerto Rico—that for Puerto Rico to become a state, by federal law it would be required to speak English. Yes, he was wrong because that’s...
Everyone has heard of Super PACs, those ultra-powerful, ultra-rich organizations that can use their funds for whatever they please, so long as they don’t have direct coordination with a candidate....
Heavy-Handed Abortion Guidelines Violate a Woman on All Levels
By NINA GUIDICE
Usually, it is considered highly immoral to implement laws that impede a person’s path to exercise their rights. Somehow,...
"I hope you enjoyed the goody bags and the champagne and the gold. I hope that took your mind off the recession for a while." So ended the 2012 Golden Globe awards, courtesy of Ricky Gervais. The "gold"...
Published: October 7, 2010
At least one member of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) canceled his membership in protest after viewing Ad Reinhardt’s “Abstract Painting” (1963) in its initial...
