Shutdown interrupted: two federal employees weigh in on the longest government shutdown in United States history
Tallula Ricciardi and Sally Cobb
February 27, 2019
From midnight on Dec. 22, 2018 until Jan. 25, 2019, the United States government experienced what turned out to be the longest federal shutdown in history. The 34-day government shutdown began because the U.S. Congress and President Trump could not come to an agreement on an appropriations bill to fu...
Contemplating Jewish identity at Urban in light of the Pittsburgh shooting
Zella Lezak, Staff Writer
December 20, 2018
Filed under News, Top Stories
This article is expanding on another online article about the Pittsburgh shooting. While this article focuses more on the effects that the shooting had on Urban students, the article online expands more on the roots of anti-Semitism and how experts outside of Urban view the shooting. For additional co...
Louisville shooting reveals Urban’s response to tragedy
Wes Peters, Staff Writer
December 20, 2018
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On Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018, Gregory Bush entered a Kroger—a chain supermarket—in Jefferson City, Kentucky, and shot two African Americans named Maurice Stallard and Vickie Lee Jones. Afterward, Bush exchanged gunfire with an armed citizen. When the police arrived, he tried to flee but was captur...
Jamal Khashoggi’s death exposes Urban’s relationship to the Middle East
December 20, 2018
Filed under News, Politics, Urban
Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi Arabian journalist who self exiled to the United States for fear of getting arrested because of his public opposition to the Saudi government and to the ideals of the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). On Oct. 2, 2018, Khashoggi disappeared at the Saudi Arabian consulate ...
Midterm Madness V: What’s Next?
Kian Nassre, Web Editor
December 20, 2018
Filed under News, Online Exclusive, Politics, Top Stories
What 2018 tells us about the Democrats’ 2020 strategy The conversation about the Democrats’ strategy to take on Trump in 2020 is centered on two types of swing states: the rust belt and the sun belt. Rust belt swing states (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa) are more tra...
Midterm Madness Part IV: What Happened
Kian Nassre, Web Editor
December 20, 2018
Filed under News, Online Exclusive, Politics
Democrats took the House and Republicans held the Senate, but so much more happened on Nov. 6. When the blue wave crashed down, the fundamental balance of power in dozens of states was shifted in ways that will affect us for years to come. But first things first: what exactly happened? Democrats ...
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