Over the last few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to get out of Washington and talk with folks across the country about how we can create jobs and get our economy growing faster. This is a tough time for a lot of Americans—especially young people. You’ve come of age at a time of profound change.

Yesterday I attended a protest at President Obama’s St. Louis campaign fundraiser, urging him to reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline for Canadian tar sands oil. In August, 1,253 brave people were arrested in acts of civil disobedience outside the White House in order to send the same message: reject the Keystone XL. I was not able to make it to D.C.

My uncle once quoted to me, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re 30, you have no brain.” A conservative, he is probably patiently waiting for naïve liberal me to start griping about the government stealing my money. It is undoubtedly easier to accept paying taxes when they remain an abstract concept.

In all of the insanity that is midterms at Wash. U., people have neglected to notice some important things that have been going on in the world. Specifically, in a defining moment for Jon Stewart, President Obama is going to be on The Daily Show this very evening.

16.2, 42, 46…The numbers are everywhere and the debate is now ubiquitous. The debate on the U.S. health care system, that is. Ever since President Obama ranked health care reform as a top priority, the contentious dialogue flooded in from left, right and center with a pessimistic outlook for agreement or compromise. The U.S. health [...]

The selection of President Barack Obama as the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize just ten months after he took office was a surprise that has elicited shock, applause and, in some cases, disapproval on campus.

President Obama has made some bold moves surrounding United States’ anti-torture policies, but it seems as though his decision to appeal to everyone has weakened his position considerably these past few days.

The Obama administration’s recent statements about China might hinder Obama’s desire to improve the United States’ relations with all nations of the world. While some Chinese students at Washington University are not attuned to the discourse between China and the United States, others understand the controversy but are optimistic about the future.

At the inauguration this weekend, Elizabeth Alexander, an author and Yale professor, will deliver something called an “inaugural poem.” So much hype has been made of the symbolic meaning of the Obama inauguration—commemorative facecards on the D.C. metro, mass bus trips to Washington, and what seems to be a near-universal celebration of the significance of [...]