Photo courtesy of Flickr “Are you trying to say I’m dumb? Are you mocking me here, Pete?” This was Senator Amy Klobuchar’s retort to former Mayor Pete Buttigieg needling her…
Pictured: NYU Professor Amin Husain at a pro-Palestine rally. Photo courtesy of the NY Post On Tuesday, February 18th, Kristen Gourrier, the President of NYU College Republicans, and I, the…
Journalists protesting in Kashmir on Tuesday, Nov 12, 2019. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock (via The New York Times). “The judiciary has played a great role in the past in ensuring…
Photo courtesy of Skynews Singapore, in both its close geographical ties and political ties to China, is in an especially precarious position when it comes to the new deadly…
Photo courtesy of The New Yorker. With New Hampshire now behind us, the Democratic primary field seems to have narrowed down significantly. Septuagenarians Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden, have wasted…
Ethiopia’s $4-billion dollar Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is expected to generate a colossal 6,000 megawatts of electricity upon completion. Photo courtesy of Getty Images (via The National). After two…
Photo courtesy of Getty Images. For many Democrats who believe in “vote blue no matter who,” electability may be an important quality to look for in a candidate during the…
Image courtesy of Tom Gralish/Philadelphia Inquirer. The apocalypse had arrived. The New Hampshire Democratic primary was close, and the Iowa caucus an abject disaster. Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight ominously forecasted that…
Voting should be a handful of things: easy, accessible, private, and quick. In fact, the part of the voting process that should consume the most time is the researching of candidates and the issues.
Nearly one month from the Iowa caucus, thirteen Democrats have dropped out of the presidential race--mayors, governors, and U.S. Senators among them. There are still fifteen (!) left, including the first prominent Democrat to announce their candidacy: former Congressman John Delaney of Maryland. As of this writing, Delaney has struggled to break ground in the polls, but he has recently redoubled his efforts in Iowa in the hopes that his brand of “pragmatic idealism” will eventually catch fire. In The Zeitgeist recently sat down with Delaney to talk national service, infrastructure, foreign policy--and that box jump video.