By Aditi Roy On Friday, August 25th, a Category 4 hurricane hit the coast of Texas with winds reaching over 130 mph and over 50 inches of rainfall. Hurricane Harvey claimed the lives of over 40 people and has been estimated to have caused over $125 billion in damages. The tragedy brought out the worst of mother nature, along with the best and worst in mankind. Usually people put aside their…
The Audacity of This Bitch
By Rebecca Goldstein I have been a member of the Binghamton Review for about two years now, and within the past two semesters I have noticed that we have some big issues. See that joke there? In all seriousness, many of our issues (otherwise known as our property) are being defaced and destroyed. Reminiscent of notes your mom left for you in your lunchbox, we’ve had cute notes left for us declaring us “fascists.” A…
America Needs Trump’s Immigration Policy
By: Don Quixote The citizens of the United States of America, fed up with Barack Obama’s refusal to stand up for America’s interests, elected Donald Trump to the presidency on a platform of America First. Obama failed as president to uphold the very purpose of a government “By the people, of the people, and [most importantly] for the people.” The purpose of a government is to provide a collective benefit to the citizens of a…
Embargone
By Jordan Raitses Cuba has been our fiercest enemy in the ongoing Cold War against the damned Soviet menace (not that it ended 30 years ago or anything). The brutal war-hardened savages of this peaceful Latin American country have long cast a menacing shadow across the mere 100-mile-straight between Us and Them. Breaking our resolve with their infamous cigars and an abundance of doctors, the Cubans [read: Red Menace] gave us no choice but to…
Onwards Towards 2014
By Dan Milyavsky I hope all that all of my fellow students are enjoying their winter break, and to any of the non-students reading this, I hope that you are enjoying your winter. With the recent transformation of the Northeast into an uninhabitable tundra, I’ve recently been able to relate to what my parents felt like when they worked in the north of Russia, close to Siberia. Okay, that’s an exaggeration, it was still about…
Yes We Can… No You Can’t! Four Lies Exposed About the Affordable Care Act
By Jake Hayutin President Obama continues to point fingers at his subordinates, plead ignorance and stand behind policies that have clearly failed. Lois Lerner was nudged to resign after the IRS scandal was uncovered this summer. Eric Holder was blamed for the Fast and Furious scandal, which involved over 2,000 American firearms being placed in the hands of Mexican drug cartels between 2006 and 2011. And that obscure filmmaker who…
Democracy is a Myth
By “The Wolf” The government is run by unelected bureaucrats, with some input from elected politicians. Just because you get to vote for these politicians doesn’t mean you have a say in how the government is run. During the Democratic National Convention of 2012, a popular slogan was that “government is the one thing we all belong to.” But that’s not true. Government is the one thing that has power over us, while the vast…