From the Editor “Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.” –Thomas Jefferson “Hey baby, nobody suffers like the poor!” –Charles Bukowski I know it’s...
Guest Editorial Patrick Inglis Thomas Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center, and moderator of the recent panel discussion entitled "Military Power," held in the Proshansky Auditorium, had asked General Barry McCaffrey (ret.) his thoughts on...
Adjuncting RENEE McGARRY They say when it hits the New York Times Sunday Style section you know the trend is over, and probably has been for at least a year. I have a distinct memory of such an event, the moment when the Style section did a photo essay on Doc Martens. I think it was 1995,...
Political analysis ANDREW BAST The war looks eerily familiar: beheadings, assassinations of police and public officials, terrorized businesspeople, extorted schoolteachers, and in five years more than 230 American civilians dead in the crossfire. All this could easily describe the battle...
In an effort to provide short-term relief to a budget under duress, Republican lawmakers in the New York State Senate have proposed a plan designed to attract students to CUNY and SUNY while they’re still in the cradle. The plan, open to all children under the age of fourteen, offers...
