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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Baas: U.S. government must improve election system to regain voter confidence

March 9, 2018

The 2016 election was a period full of controversy, emotion and nightmarish reporting. For some, the election meant losing many of the American values they held dearest. Others saw it as an opportunity...

Lamps: The United States should greatly expand foreign aid spending

Lamps: The United States should greatly expand foreign aid spending

December 4, 2015

In the United States, the federal government spends the majority of its money on social programs like welfare, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. As a result, our absolute poverty rate has dramatically...

Cao: The US should intervene in the South China Sea disputes

Cao: The US should intervene in the South China Sea disputes

November 22, 2015

The flexing of China’s military muscle in the South China Sea has escalated tensions in Southeast Asia. The main issue is the Chinese government using a “nine-dash line” to demarcate its purportedly...

Stratton and Sawhney: Is change in Cuba in our near future?

April 8, 2015

This January in his annual State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced Washington’s strategy on Cuba was “long past its expiration date.” Obama then ordered Congress to begin the...

Ussama Makdisi, a professor of history at Rice University, speaks Monday at the Evanston Public Library. Makdisi discussed the origins of sectarianism in the modern Middle East.

Rice University professor discusses sectarianism in Middle East

March 3, 2015

A Rice University professor spoke Monday at the Evanston Public Library on sectarianism in the Middle East and how the region’s history of coexistence has slowly been forgotten. Ussama Makdisi,...

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