The Syrian civil war has been going on for four years. It has dominated newspaper headlines and global consciences but shows little sign of devolving from horror. Up until 2014, the U.S. had only taken just over 200 Syrian refugees from the conflict. As the seemingly interminable streams of asylum seekers ...
The first debate between democratic candidates for the 2016 presidential election took place on Tuesday night. Before we went to press the College Democrats were expecting around 100 people to show up. Bernard ‘Bernie’ Sanders is the candidate who seems to have the most support with college-age ...
Last week, students publicly demonstrated their displeasure with the recent John Doe v. Middlebury College ruling from the State of Vermont. On Thursday night, the words “Doe must go, I stand w/ Jane” were chalked on the pavement leading up to Mead Chapel and the go/doe link was established. The ...
Ari Fleischer ‘82 is one of The College’s most prominent graduates in the world of politics. He was ever-present in the media as the White House Press Secretary during the crucial first years of George W. Bush’s presidency (2001 - 2003). He was with the President when the tragic events of 9/11 ...
Mesopotamia was the birthplace of civilization. Its fertile lands allowed for the first instances of agriculture and organized society. From between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris emerged the first empires. From within that crescent of land came the first accounts of writing and the rest, as they say, ...
Double-tap. Explosion. Dust. Blood. Celebrations. It reads like a resume of a more traditional military confrontation but in these modern instances no one has to touch a gun or even look their enemy in the face. Welcome to the world of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Many governments, private firms and individuals ...
I spy with my little eye, something that begins with the letter “S.” That’s right, scandal. As Edward Snowden nestles up in Moscow using his own father as a media battering ram, and Julian Assange is holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy launching vain campaigns to run as an Australian senator whilst ...
Somehow, without any U.S. troops being deployed or thousands of civilians dying as collateral damage, both Iran and Syria seem to have given in to international diplomatic pressure. Iran’s new regime, after being democratically elected to succeed that of the highly questionable Ahmadinejad, has lived ...
He didn’t want to tell us the story, but he did. The man at the dinner table this summer had dug up the bodies of murdered Kurds in the early nineties. He had recovered samples in order to help prove that Saddam’s regime had been responsible for using Sarin against defenseless citizens. He was then ...
I’ve been writing this column for the whole of this school year. During that entire time there has been one conflict of major international importance which somehow has never been quite topical enough for me to discuss in depth. I refer, of course, to the civil conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic. ...
