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The Colgate Maroon-News

The Oldest College Weekly in America. Founded 1868.

The Colgate Maroon-News

The Oldest College Weekly in America. Founded 1868.

The Colgate Maroon-News

Being Right: Checks and Balances vs. Court Packing

Nathan Biller, Maroon-News Staff October 31, 2020

On Oct. 19, Senator Ted Cruz, along with five other Republicans from the U.S. Senate, put forth a constitutional amendment aimed at permanently setting the size of the Supreme Court to nine Justices. Only...

What’s Left: VP Debate

Momin Razzaque, Maroon-News Staff October 15, 2020

Last Tuesday, America witnessed the first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. The debate, a tragic allegory of the backsliding of American liberal democracy,...

Being Right: Mess on Aisle One, Calling Pence For Clean-Up

Victoria Pino, Maroon-News Staff October 15, 2020

There are two words that immediately come to my mind when I attempt to summarize the first presidential debate of 2020 to my friends that opted out of the experience, and those words are: dumpster fire....

Being Right: The Senate Should Swiftly Confirm Judge Barrett

Patrick Taylor, Maroon-News Staff October 1, 2020

President Trump announced that Judge Amy Coney Barrett would be his third nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, succeeding the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday, Sept. 26. Though the president...

What’s Left: The Conservative Capture of the Supreme Court

Fabrizio Herrera, Maroon-News Staff October 1, 2020

Last Friday, Sept. 18, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at the age of 87. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell did not even wait a day to confirm what we all feared was going to happen...

What’s Left: The Democratic Party’s Plan Will Revive the American Economy

Kartik Devpura, Maroon-News Staff October 1, 2020

In a historic move on March 27, politicians across both the Democratic and Republican parties recognized the urgent need to combat the economic havoc wreaked by the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent...

Being Right: Federal Stimulus: President Trump is Placing National Interests Before Partisan Interests

Anthony Palazzola, Maroon-News Staff September 22, 2020

President Donald Trump and the national government have taken extraordinary measures to stabilize the economy during this difficult moment of our history. In fact, the President has signed legislation...

What’s Left: The Case for Anthony Brindisi

Reed Cleland, Maroon-News Staff September 15, 2020

New York’s 22nd Congressional District is a perfect microcosm of the national political battle between the Neoliberal Democratic Party and the Trump Republican Party. The outcome of the grudge match...

Being Right: Tenney is the Right Choice for NY-22

Patrick Taylor, Staff Writer September 15, 2020

The congressional race in New York’s 22nd district looks to be as competitive as ever this fall. Following a nail-biter of an election in 2018, in which then-state assemblyman Anthony Brindisi narrowly...

What’s Left Kenosha Protests: March On

Fabrizio Herrera Alfaro, Maroon-News Staff September 12, 2020

On August 23, Jacob S. Blake was shot seven times by a white police officer who was responding to reports of a domestic dispute. Jacob Blake was there trying to de-escalate this domestic dispute, nothing...

A Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Must Work for the American People, not Big Business

Jackson Coleman, Maroon-News Staff April 11, 2020

Urgent, decisive, and meaningful action is necessary to deal with what may be the largest and deadliest crisis of the 21st century, the COVID-19 outbreak. The trillion-dollar stimulus bill that was blocked...

Being Right: Another Democrat Doomed to Fail

Marc Moreira, Maroon-News Staff February 27, 2020

It comes from a conservative mindset that each individual should be entitled to do what they want with their own money they have earned and that one shouldn’t judge what others do with their money. But,...

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