Category: News and Opinion

‘A game of margins’: A breakdown of young Pennsylvania voters

By Allie Miller >> For Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump, there is no clear path to victory without a win in Pennsylvania, and the state’s young voters could help decide the race. Among the swing state’s young voters is 20-year-old Temple University junior Cecilia Schleinitz, a political science and economics

Voter turnout, stakes are high in Michigan

By Noah Beaumont >> Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making their last gambits in swing states like Michigan where youth voter registration is high. As in other battleground states, the election here could come down to young voter turnout.  The presidential race is in a statistical tie heading into the

Political cartoons

Students in the “Cartooning” class at Columbia College Chicago created cartoons about the 2024 election. The class is taught by Richard Laurent, who worked as an editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Laurent is an adjunct at Columbia. Some of the cartoons were first published in the Columbia Chronicle and are reprinted with permission.

Opinion: Why I won’t cancel my subscription to The Washington Post

By Jackie Spinner Earlier this year, Will Lewis, the Washington Post’s new publisher and CEO, disclosed in a staff meeting that the Post had lost nearly half of its digital subscribers since the peak of 2020 when Donald Trump was still president and the COVID-19 pandemic was raging. The Post had already announced that it