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Photo via Business Insider Growing up in a large Italian-American family in upstate New York, I was surrounded by rich Catholic values, a deep sense of pride in hard work and achievement, and perhaps most of all, I was bounded by the…

The most remembered quote from the 2015 State of the Union; “I have no more campaigns to run. I know because I won both of them” was about the only thing I heard students talking about following the annual address. While Obama…

This Sunday the NFL caps off its season with the Super Bowl, the most-watched TV event of the year. This season, though, might be one the NFL wishes it could redo. In terms of the game, it was a fantastic year for the league, with…

“But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.” These are the words found in Chris Kyle's memoir of the Iraq War, recently adapted into the blockbuster film, American Sniper. Over the past few…

6/18/2008, 4:20 AM, Wanat village, Nuristan province, Afgahnistan. Around two hundred Taliban insurgents are firing on two dozen Afghan soldiers and forty-eight Americans. Cpl. Jonathan Ayers and Spc. Chris McKaig held off the…

Features Editor Eric Garner’s last words, “I can’t breathe,” represent more than his unwarranted death, but a greater issue, a suffocation that minorities endure in the United States. Eric Garner’s death has riled the nation, causing…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Snow is falling gently outside; the landscape is blanketed in a lovely shade of white, thirsty patrons wait in line at coffee shops for peppermint-spiced lattes and other frivolous drinks.…

Two Thanksgivings ago I sat down on the couch, with my Thanksgiving feast, to watch the Redskins play the Cowboys in Dallas. I quickly pointed out the irony of the match-up, and my dad convinced me that they play every Thanksgiving…