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Santhosh Nadarajah

Democrats must take a stronger stand on immigration

/January 16, 2025

Two years ago, my father—a lifelong Democrat—told Rachel Maddow that she and other MSNBC anchors should take immigration, particularly illegal immigration, seriously, and lobby President Biden to do the same. For years, Democrats either dismissed immigration concerns or embraced left-wing positions to court Hispanic voters. My father believed that ignoring this issue would hurt the […]

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Republicans: It’s time to confront white nationalism and neo-Nazism

/January 7, 2025

Elon Musk and Vice President-elect JD Vance recently defended Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) political party, a far-right party whose leaders have made comments suggesting that they align with neo-Nazism. While I concede that the Left tends to overuse the terms “racist,” “Nazi,” and “far-right,” if the AfD—an ethno-nationalist party with leadership that has been […]

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Kamala Harris’s On-and-Off Progressivism

/November 4, 2024

Most members of Congress, including former California Senator Kamala Harris, often draft legislation that serves as a signal to some of their constituents and donors, rather than as a genuine effort to pass meaningful laws. Kamala Harris introduced 132 bills and resolutions during her four-year tenure as a senator. However, many of her bills, including […]

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Sunrise Princeton hosts “Emergency Rally for Climate Justice”; Princeton resumes energy research funding

/October 19, 2024

On Friday, October 4, Sunrise Princeton, a climate justice student organization, held an “Emergency Rally for Climate Justice” in front of Nassau Hall.  The rally drew approximately 30 attendees, who chanted, among other things, “Climate, justice, climate, justice,” “do your job,” and “cut all ties.” Attendance was noticeably lower than past Sunrise Princeton rallies, including […]

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JD Vance won the VP Debate. Does anyone care?

/October 3, 2024

On Tuesday, October 1, CBS hosted the Vice Presidential debate at CBS headquarters in New York City. I watched the debate on TV at Princeton, and what I saw impressed me. On nearly every issue, Senator JD Vance (R-OH) demonstrated command of the facts and dominated Governor Tim Walz (D-MN). On immigration, Vance correctly noted […]

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Princeton SJP Hosts “Walkout for Palestine,” Journalists Face Harassment

/November 13, 2023

On Thursday, November 9, at 12:00 p.m., Princeton’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) hosted a “Walkout for Palestine” on Princeton’s campus. The protest was coordinated as part of a nationwide campus walkout, with demonstrations also occurring at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and elsewhere. At the event, Tory reporters were obstructed […]

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Liberal Studies: An Apology

/May 11, 2022

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone.   “We shall call those studies liberal which are worthy of a free man; those studies by which we attain and practise virtue and wisdom; that education which calls forth, trains, and develops those highest gifts of body and of mind, and which […]

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A Tale of Two Empires: China, the United States, and Competing Visions of Geopolitics and International Finance

/March 18, 2022

Image courtesy of the South China Morning Post   The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone.   In 1944, during WWII, Allied nations met at the Bretton Woods Resort in snowy New Hampshire to discuss how to revamp the global financial system once Nazi Germany was inevitably defeated. The International […]

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The Democratic Party on “Social Issues”

/December 4, 2021

Image courtesy of Politico   The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone.   “The Democrats’ religion is wokeism” “The Democrats’ religion is racism, first in favor of the KKK, and now in favor of CRT and The 1619 Project” “The Democrats are anti-God” The first two above statements are frequently […]

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