Editor’s note: The author is a previous opinion writer for The Battalion and is currently a graduate student at Texas A&M.
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Education in the United States has become a serious flashpoint for controversy in recent years. This has taken the form of debates over topics as varied as curriculum, the utility of standardized testing or the growing shortage of teachers in the public school system. But in all the argument…
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We college students are no strangers to rising costs — whether that be tuition, rent or gas. With the national inflation rate increasing to over 7% over the past year, the last thing we need is more expenses on top of everything else we already have to pay. The newly-proposed Texas Public Ut…
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When people think of national security, the first thing that comes to mind usually isn’t pre-K education. What military leaders like myself understand is that we can’t have a strong military without investing in American children and their families. In order to have the safest, strongest nat…
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Editor’s note: Nathan Varnell is a former editor for The Battalion and a former student, Class of 2023.
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Nearly 50 years after the last military helicopter departed off the roof of the U.S. Embassy building in Saigon, Vietnam, the world witnessed yet another heart-wrenching and rambunctious American withdrawal, this time from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. The unprece…
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The notion of “life begins at conception” is a loaded statement championed by conservatives to provide the pretense that biology is somehow on their side. Oftentimes, this statement is made by individuals who have no notion of embryology or simply cherry-pick which factual biological stateme…
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How can one not be disturbed, even depressed, by the recent mass shooting in Uvalde? No words can accurately describe our collective shock and revulsion. So, the practical questions that follow for our Congress and state legislators are pretty basic: What can we do to stop or greatly reduce …
Editor’s note: The author is a previous opinion writer for The Battalion and is currently a graduate student at Texas A&M.
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