Republicans

The audacity of disappointment

President Obama needs to take a strong stance and deliver on his promises from the 2008 campaign.

Democrats down but not out

In spite of political stalemate, young Democrats have not lost the game.

Harlem-based site leans right

Hip-hop, Republicans, and Harlem are all at one web address.

The Left's straw man

The real problem America faces is not with conservatism, but rather with populism—that insidious force which poisons American political discourse from both sides of the spectrum.

Coulter inveighs against Obama, liberal "victims"

Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter criticized Barack Obama and told a packed crowd that "liberals are always offended" in a speech she gave tonight at Columbia.

McCain Returns to Columbia After Cool Reception in 2006

When Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) last spoke on campus at Columbia College’s Class Day in 2006, he was greeted with 800 orange buttons and 100 umbrellas that read “McCain does not speak for me.”
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Forgotten Columbians

Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad is the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration. The Afghanistan-born scholar-turned-diplomat served for two years as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq.

Super Tuesday Mad Libs

Despite my best efforts to procrastinate, I had to write this column on Monday night so that the editing staff could have time to deal with news, events, opinions, and things that actually matter a

'Islamo-facism': A Dumb Idea

Like David Horowitz, CC ’59, I believe that we could end most of America’s problems if we simply repeated the word Islamo-fascism enough times, preferably from some sort of stage.

Size Leads to Divisions Within Dems

To facilitate its diverse constituency, the Columbia University College Democrats has been gradually developing sub-groups to promote activism directed at specific causes.