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  • A Force to be Reckoned With: The Military’s Effect on Social Change

    Colonel Eugene Householder argued in 1941, “The Army is not a sociological laboratory. Experimenting with army policy, especially in a time of war, would pose a danger to efficiency, discipline, and morale, and would result in ultimate defeat.” Fast forward 72 years, and the Colonel’sthrust still holds relevance as the United States struggles to solvesocial…

  • Mr. Smith Threatens to go to Washington

    BY SERENA LEKAWA By definition, ‘filibuster’ is an informal term for an attempt to block or slow down a Senate action or bill by refusing to finish debating it. The origins of this quirky tool are not found in the Constitution, but rather in the perversion of a loophole in the Senate rulebook. Originally, the…