BRIEF: Campbell to run for U.S. Senate
Former Stanford law professor and two-time California congressman Tom Campbell is reportedly dropping out of the California governor’s race to run for the U.S. Senate. Campbell previously represented...
View ArticleRepublican wins Mass. Senate seat
In a race that was thought to be non-competitive until just weeks ago, Republican Scott Brown secured a massive upset victory over Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachusetts, winning Tuesday’s special...
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Bursting the Bubble: Time for the GOP to stand up to Rush
“What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke who goes before congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? It makes her a slut, right?” Rush Limbaugh said on...
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Mitt Romney led the charge as a Big Game prankster in 1965
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s love of practical jokes has been well-documented: he’s admitted to playing “a lot of pranks in high school” and his family teased him for it...
View ArticleObama re-elected, turns focus to second term
“Hope and Change” has found a second wind. Four years after then-Senator Barack Obama rode an unprecedented wave of enthusiasm and optimism all the way to his election as the first African-American...
View ArticleDems In It to Win It
As the partial shutdown of the federal government looks set to continue into a second week, it’s easy– as you’ll see elsewhere on this page– to point fingers at a Republican Party seemingly consumed by...
View ArticleThe Rest is Silence: American Diplomacy on the Brink
Author’s note/correction: While the Budapest Memorandums on Security Assurances (1994) include promises by Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom to refrain from the use or threat of force...
View ArticleThe debate on man-made climate change
You really just have to sit back and admire the hole most Republicans have dug themselves into on climate change. The question isn’t whether they’re right or wrong in denying that it exists — they’re...
View ArticleThe Hillary Clinton email scandal: Should it affect her presidential candidacy?
Republicans are desperate, and they’re doing everything in their power to take down Hillary Clinton. With Clinton leading most of the polls for the 2016 presidential election, Republicans are terrified...
View ArticleThe future of the GOP
This primary is not even close to what the GOP establishment had envisioned after President Obama’s reelection. At that time, they had begun to plan how their party would retake the White House in...
View ArticleHow to really be an ‘Everlasting GOP-stopper’
Usually, it’s easy for me as a radical leftist (I know, you’re all shocked to finally discover where my political leanings lie) to look at the Republican Party and its frontrunners for this upcoming...
View ArticleWorse than Trump: The Trump supporters
After countless controversial statements composing what seemed like an eternity, most of the country, the media and even the Republican leadership has moved to denounce Donald Trump’s most recent “ban...
View ArticleRepublican Righteousness on Democratic Dictatorship
It’s 2016! This year, we’ll elect the next president of the United States, and it may even be the first time many of Stanford’s current undergraduates vote for president. However, while the likes of...
View ArticleWhy the GOP should nominate Trump in a brokered convention
Donald J. Trump is certainly not the best Republican candidate for president (he may even be one of the worst), but under certain circumstances, he may just be the best option available for the...
View ArticleThe party is deciding
In 2008 and 2012, the establishment favorites, John McCain and Mitt Romney, each won the Republican party’s nomination. They were both economically and socially conservative (which I am not), but I...
View ArticleThe moral demise of the GOP
I consider myself a conservative. This alone shouldn’t be cause for concern (although on this campus, I’m certain not everybody would agree with that sentiment). The label itself encompasses a wide...
View ArticleThursday town hall to address concerns over GOP tax bill
Administrators will speak at a town hall Thursday in response to continued concerns about the negative implications of the GOP’s tax bill — now passed by both houses of Congress — for Stanford and its...
View ArticleTrustees talk land-use, concerns about GOP tax proposals
The Board of Trustees convened earlier this week for its second meeting of the academic year, discussing Congressional tax proposals and their possible effects on higher education as well as the...
View ArticleTed Cruz relevant again, unfortunately
One of the most hated men in America, Ted Cruz, is somehow relevant again? Our man Ted is hated only slightly less than Martin Shkreli and a little bit more than Jake Paul, but despite all of that,...
View ArticleStanford professor Jay Bhattacharya joins Ron DeSantis’ 2024 presidential...
Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced his 2024 presidential campaign bid through Twitter earlier today on May 24, garnering more than 1.3 million views on his 2-hour Twitter Space live. Stanford...
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