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By Grace Lewis || Contributing Writer A non-profit organization entitled Students for Fair Admissions has filed suit against Harvard University. The claim is against the admission department for actively discriminating…
Sunya Hassan || News Editor On Friday, September 7th, Former President Barack Obama gave a speech at the University of Illinois, imploring people to vote this November, stressing that American…
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 Katherine Coble || News Editor The American territory of Puerto Rico is struggling to respond to the major damage done by category-four storm Hurricane Maria last week. Wind and…
By Caylie Privitere || Contributing Writer We are navigating a landscape devoid of truth. Science is a sphere of influence constantly evolving; there is not, nor has there ever been,…
By Katherine Coble || News Editor For many young people, local government is an abstract concept. While American Millennials may rabidly follow the news on the Hill and in the…
By Boris Zyumbyulev || Staff Writer On Monday, April 3, a suicide bomber attacked the Russian subway at St. Petersburg, where 14 people died and at least 40 were injured.…
By Benjamin Grove || Layout Assistant After the 2016 election that saw a transition from a Democratic president to a Republican one, the Democratic party is hoping for positive results…
By Benjamin Grove || Layout Assistant In the past week, thousands of Russians have taken to the streets of Moscow, Russia’s capital and largest city, to rally against the corruption…
By Katherine Coble || News Editor The American-led coalition of military forces fighting ISIS has confirmed that they are investigating an airstrike in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.…
By Boris Zyumbyulev || Staff Writer Four people died and over 50 were injured in a terrorist attack on Parliament in London, the United Kingdom. Around 2:40pm on Wednesday, 22nd…
By Katherine Coble || News Editor This week has been an eventful one for Neil Gorsuch. The 49-year-old Colorado native and current appellate judge on the United States Court of…
By Katherine Coble || News Editor On Thursday, March 2, MSNBC political correspondent Steve Kornacki came to Franklin & Marshall College to speak about the current political climate in America.…
By Boris Zyumbyulev || Contributing Writer Last week, Franklin & Marshall College had two important talks on the freedom of expression. The first one was on Monday, February 28, in…
By Kimberly Givant || Editor-in-Chief On Tuesday, February 28, the Government Department at Franklin & Marshall College hosted Yale University professor and renowned political theorist Hélène Landemore, the 2017 Jerome…