D.C. Students Speak has admirably sought a greater voice for college students in city government. But for the organization to reach its potential, both in terms of legitimacy and effectiveness, D.C. Students...

Two Americans, a German and a Dutch girl walk into a bar, order two mojitos, a San Miguel and a cocktail. The only punchline here is the bar itself, a brightly lit expat hangout whose constant loop of...

“It’s over for Mitt Romney.” If you paid any attention to the news this past week, that was the refrain bandied across cable channels and the front pages of newspapers. According to conventional...

This upcoming presidential election will not be defined by the victory of Obama or Romney. Rather, the congressional elections are what matter most. With polls suggesting an Obama victory alongside major...

Mass, at times, seemed too much like Fox News this summer. This was an unpleasant turn of events, for sure. Sunday mornings are better without thinly veiled political rhetoric. In early July, many American...

“In Massachusetts, we know Mitt Romney. … He cut education deeper than anywhere else in America. Roads and bridges were crumbling.” These were words Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.) used to describe...

The events of this past week in Egypt and Libya have drawn a spotlight on a theme that has been noticeably missing in the 2012 presidential campaigns: foreign policy. Mitt Romney responded to the death...

In introductory economics courses, we are taught that every decision involves trade-offs. With that in mind, we should be wary of the simple-minded arguments in defense of unions that extend everywhere...

My Georgetown Idea, an online discussion board run through IdeaScale, has shown that it can be an effective platform for proposing improvements to the university. But while these conversations are fodder...

One of my professors asked my class last week what we thought about the Harvard cheating scandal, in which 125 students plagiarized or collaborated on a take-home final exam. We were unanimous in our response:...

In the District of Columbia, targeting students is against the law. Apparently, no one told that to the city council. College upperclassmen across the District who have cars innocently assume that obtaining...

The creation of the Center for Social Justice was one of the crowning achievements of former University President Fr. Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J. With that in mind, one wonders how O’Donovan would react...