presidents

The Parties and their parties

What’s more fun than a Political Party? A political party. Despite their attempts to appear to voters as bastions of civility and decorum, American presidents have been known to “rally.” Here are a few stories of them at their most devious, in roughly chronological order.

| News Editor

Presidential plates: an investigation into the diets of Joe Biden and Donald Trump

As the famous saying goes, you are what you eat. If that’s the case, what could the presidents of our country be eating that makes them the way they are? Spoiler alert: Presidential diets are far from normal. Former President Obama was known for eating seven lightly salted almonds before bed. Ronald Reagan was a jelly bean fanatic. Richard Nixon consumed cottage cheese, pineapple slices, and a glass of milk before resigning from the Oval Office. In the name of curiosity, I decided to follow the diets of our two most recent presidents for a weekend. On Friday, I spent […]

| Contributing Writer

Presidential morals

For much of our lives, we have seen Americans hold their politicians to a high moral standard. In 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached for, among other things, having committed perjury when discussing his relationship with Monica Lewinksy with a grand jury.

| Staff Columnist

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