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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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Against the Policy Mindset

/January 8, 2025

National attention on campus free-speech issues tends to focus on only the most sensational threats. Incidents like speaker shout-downs, disruptive protests, physical attacks, major petitions, or unjust firings garner the most attention from alumni and the general public. And rightly so – there is no shortage of incidents that ought to cause outrage from those […]

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Biden’s Missteps, Assad’s Fall

/December 9, 2024

Sunday marked the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the end of a half-century of rule by the Assad family and the culmination of the country’s nearly 14-year-long civil war. Assad fled Damascus on Saturday evening after a coalition of rebel groups seized the capital in a lightning offensive that began in late November. […]

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Democrats: A Fork in the Road

/November 26, 2024

“Democrats need to…say, yes, there is misogyny, but it’s not just misogyny from white men. It’s misogyny from Hispanic men, it’s misogyny from black men.” That was MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough’s analysis of the November 5 election results. Indeed, many pundits and so-called academics on the left have pushed a similar narrative: namely that Trump’s win […]

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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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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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On Armenia, Israel Displays Moral Inconsistency

/May 30, 2024

In the wake of Hamas’ barbaric terror attack on October 7, 2023, the conflict between Israel and Hamas has received much attention. Discussions in conservative circles surrounding the current war have produced a common contention: Israel is a beacon of democracy defending itself against terrorist actors and protecting its national sovereignty. Indeed, Israel has been […]

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LETTERS: Should Religious Beliefs Shape Policy?

/March 22, 2024

The Princeton Tory is excited to launch a “Letters” section this semester. For the first time, the Tory asked members of the student body for short responses to a selected question. The first such question was “Should religious beliefs shape policy?” Students were free to approach this question from a personal, theoretical, legal, historical, or […]

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The Constitution Doesn’t Replace Politics

/January 11, 2024

In the year since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center, the Left has continually decried the current Supreme Court as a right-leaning activist body grasping for power in order to imperil basic rights. Countless conservative commentators have responded by pointing out the irony of defining “power-hungry activism” as “sending power back to the states” and […]

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