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The Syrian aid paradox
It has been two years and 17 days. Two extremely grueling and violent years, spent in an attempt to oust a family that has kept hold of Syria for more than four decades.
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Privacy is dead: time to make a choice
Zachary Antoyan is a political science junior and Mustang Daily liberal columnist. We are all interconnected. And I don’t mean this in the way of the six degrees of separation kind. Instead, I mean that if I wanted to find out about a man whose name is Smitty Werbinjagermanjensen, I could easily do so. I […]
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Your worst nightmare
Zachary Antoyan is a political science junior and Mustang Daily liberal columnist. It’s almost finals week, and as the stress increases, so does the need for some escapism. So let’s talk about Batman. Pointy mask things, effective utility belt and an unnecessarily deep voice, Batman has been an icon for DC Comics since his inception […]
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Why Uncle Sam, what big eyes you have!
Zachary Antoyan is a political science junior and Mustang Daily liberal columnist. Our popular culture holds that if the President of the United States ever needed to launch nuclear weapons, there is a shiny, big red button he or she has to press. This button, invariably, is inside of a bullet-proof briefcase handcuffed to someone’s […]
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Crowd funding: A new direction for democracy
Zachary Antoyan is a political science junior and Mustang Daily liberal columnist. Strap in, I’m about to make taxes awesome. Functionally, we pay taxes to fund our government and its works. Federal, state and municipal taxes provide the necessary sum of money to each level of government for whatever shenanigans it is involved in. What […]
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How Americans’ fervor hurts whole country
Zachary Antoyan is a political science junior and Mustang Daily liberal columnist. I’m not the only one who thinks Robert E. Kennedy Library would be a kick-ass place to hole up during the (obviously impending) zombie apocalypse, right? I mean, maybe you wouldn’t be able to stay there for very long, but at least […]
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We can government! (Spoiler: No, we can’t)
Zachary Antoyan is a political science junior and Mustang Daily liberal columnist. The other day, my roommate referred to editorial pieces as, “bitch and moan” columns. In all honesty, I can’t refute that, so in the spirit of complaining I’m gonna talk about this awesome thing called stagnation. Stagnation is a magical event that happens […]
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Not just numbers
Zachary Antoyan is a political science junior and Mustang Daily liberal columnist. “I still have violent nightmares and wake up violent and panicking … My worst days are the days after one of my dreams. I wake up and my zeal for life is gone,” Spc. Lance Pilgrim said. In 2007, Pilgrim died from an […]