U.S. Reaches the Debt Ceiling
By Robel Tadesse || Contributing Writer Lawmakers seek bipartisan solution to avoid a default Thirty-one trillion dollars – that was the amount of the debt ceiling set by Congress at…
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By Robel Tadesse || Contributing Writer Lawmakers seek bipartisan solution to avoid a default Thirty-one trillion dollars – that was the amount of the debt ceiling set by Congress at…
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor Early in the day on January 6th, shouts of “fight like hell!” echoed across the National Mall, as domestic terrorists staged an insurrection at…
By Max Sano || Contributing Writer As of right now there are no women representing the Keystone State. Jess King is the Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s 11th Congressional District, a.k.a.…
By Nicholas Stolte || Staff Writer Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) announced April 11th that he has decided not to seek reelection. Despite this announcement, Speaker Ryan intends…
By Boris Zyumbyulev || Staff Writer Congress passed a budget deal early Friday morning that raises the debt ceiling until March 2019 and keeps the government funded for the next…
By Nina Kegelman || Contributing Writer For seven years, the Republican party’s platform has prioritized the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), which currently…
By Nick Riebel || Staff Writer It’s pretty clear that, in addition to being corrupt, the Republican majority in Congress, under Trump’s and Paul Ryan’s leadership, is also quite incompetent.…
By Nick Riebel || Staff Writer Well, I warned you. Trump’s only been in office one week, and it’s been horrible in pretty much every conceivable way, except that he…
By Nick Riebel || Staff Writer The point of this article is not to discuss Trump. His pitiful, awful, and (fortunately) incompetent campaign have already been defeated, in large part…
By Katherine Coble || Contributing Writer Lancaster native and Congressional candidate Christina Hartman has an important message for F&M students: your voice matters. The 38-year-old Democrat is currently running for…
Full Staff Opinion Since Justice Antonin Scalia’s death this Saturday, there has been an unsurprising outpouring of politically-motivated discourse from both sides of the aisle. Between President Obama’s assertion that…