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Mandatory Minimums – Making Twenty-Five to Life Be Done Twice

By Robert Danco September 24, 2015

In 1994, and with an incredible 72 percent in favor, Californians passed Proposition 184. This proposition strengthened a habitual offenders law that provides higher sentences for those with two previous...

Dissecting Huckabee’s Declarations

By Melina Hsiao September 17, 2015

A few weeks ago, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was held in contempt for not issuing marriage licenses to a pair of homosexual couples. On the day of her release from jail, a rally was held in support...

Next Stop: Up

By Joseph Murdy September 9, 2015

I had just graduated from a prestigious high school at the top of my class. A few months later, I would be coming to Georgetown University, another competitive, selective and prestigious school. I thought...

Down with Pharmaceutical Costs

By Nikita Deshpande September 7, 2015

Hepatitis C officially has a cure: Sovaldi. It is a powerful drug capable of healing the 150-200 million hepatitis C sufferers around the world. This pharmaceutical discovery entered the market in 2014...

The End of a Year and the Search for a Home

By Cyrena Touros April 19, 2015

Well folks, here we are. It’s the end of the semester, the end of the year, and for some graduating next month, the end of an era of education as they are off to the real world. Copley Lawn is finally...

A Concert and An Unusual Friendship

By Duy Mai April 16, 2015

In 1892, a Stanford University student of the Pioneer Class arranged for the famous pianist, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, to come and perform at Stanford. Paderewski was a world-renowned concert pianist and...

Understanding Implicit Biases

By Tithi Patel April 12, 2015

It’s always easier to take action on an issue that has presented itself so obviously that you would be wrong to ignore its presence. But what about that itch in your bones that is telling you that something’s...

An Open Letter to The Invisible Patient

By Benjamin McAfee April 8, 2015

My name is Benjamin McAfee and I graduated from Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service in 2012. You are not alone. I experienced several issues at CAPS as well, and it is important for us to be...

What A Shock Collar Taught Me

By Anderson de Andrade April 8, 2015

As Ted Mosby reminds us in “How I Met your Mother,” nothing good ever happens after 2 a.m. This is exactly what ran through my head as I watched my best friend (who I will refer to as Carl) run through...

What Would You Do for Your Dream School?

By Cyrena Touros April 5, 2015

While enjoying a Thursday night out in Virginia with my friends on Easter Break, I got a text that transported me back to that horrible time last year, “So it turns out I won’t have to decide which...

Education Drives America’s Strongest Soft Power Resource

By Duy Mai April 2, 2015

In an essay that was excerpted from his 1990 book, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power, and published in Foreign Affairs Magazine, Professor Joseph Nye of Harvard Kennedy School first...

Revisionism In Action

By Tithi Patel March 29, 2015

Over the course of history, human records have been analyzed and reanalyzed, sometimes in order to fit the zeitgeist of the era and sometimes simply because it is a normal part of living on Earth. To quote...

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