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A liberal education, politics, and the intersection thereof at Stanford University
January 25, 2012
With Wikipedia and Reddit down, Google, Twitter and Mozillas’ logos blacked out and Hacktivist group Anonymous’ assaults on the Department of Justice, Finance, CBS and Universal Studios websites on the 18th of January, the world finally took notice of SOPA and PIPA. More importantly, so did the Senate. Both bills have been postponed for debate, [...]
January 24, 2012
Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the man who led the team that designed Stanley, Stanford’s famous self-driving car that won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005, announced yesterday in Munich that he is planning to leave Stanford to work on his online education startup, Udacity.
January 20, 2012
The January 16 GOP debate in South Carolina began in a manner that has now become customary of the Republican debates: the candidates spent a large chunk of time berating each other on their past records and quibbling like school children.
January 17, 2012
On January 18th, 2012 Wikipedia will stage its first ever political protest by blacking out in response to the Stop Online Piracy and Protect IP Acts. In an open letter published earlier today,Wikimedia Foundation Director Sue Gardner announced the knowledge giant’s decision to take a step away from it’s strictly neutral political stance to actively [...]
January 14, 2012
For almost a decade, the capture of Osama Bin Laden was the US foreign policy priority. But since Navy Seal Team 6 eliminated “Geronimo” last May in Pakistan, Americans have been forced to imagine what America’s role will be in a post-Bin Laden Middle East.
January 12, 2012
The Senate is scheduled to begin debate on the controversial Protect IP Act on January 24th. The bill is the sister legislation of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), PIPA’s counterpart in the House of Representatives, both acts which have the potential to sledgehammer Internet based companies, ranging from giants like Google to student favorite [...]
January 10, 2012
At a time when many Americans are frustrated with the lack of recovery from Obama’s big government policies, Republicans, at least in Iowa, chose to support the Republican big government candidate.
January 9, 2012
Stanford has seen many of its graduates go on to serve in public office or work in politics.
