There's a small office on Capitol Hill that is playing a major role in determining whether Americans will have affordable health care or more renewable energy in the coming year.
The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan body in charge of providing economic data to Congress, has an incredible amount of power over our political system.
Editor,
This semester, ASWC representatives will make important decisions that effect students' Whitman experience. ASWC reps need to hear from students at the Town Hall this Thursday at 7 in the Reid...
Dear Readers,
This semester, even more than most, has been a time of transition for the Pio. We hired a predominantly new staff of reporters, columnists, photographers, illustrators, production and...
Earlier this year, Google hired several student interns to work with the team behind Google Docs, its free internet collaboration suite, with features similar to Microsoft's Office and Apple's iWork. ...
"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."- Lilla Watson
Watson's formulation seems to me...
Maybe I'm just naive. Maybe it's the idealist in me. Maybe the American worker still looms too large in my youthful imagination.
But whatever it is . . . I had to know. Do I own a single piece of clothing...
It's Sunday and I'm watching football. A half-gallon of orange juice adorns the table next to me, accompanied handsomely by a half-eaten bag of Fritos. All is well in my self-contained world until breaking...
There are a lot of things you and I don't deserve: our height, our race and our class. Obviously, we didn't choose how tall we are or the combination of pigments in our skin. Less obviously, most of us...
Remember the debate over President Obama's health care plan? It wasn't that long ago that people were bringing guns to town hall meetings where shouting and jeering dominated civilized conversation.
Although the furor over health care may have died down—the newspapers aren't filled with pictures of screaming, finger-pointing Tea Partiers—the debate is far from over. On Oct. 13, the Senate Finance Committee, led by Montana senator Max Baucus, passed its version of a health care reform bill.
The state of civil rights in this country is an affront to everything we stand for.
Gay American citizens are being denied basic rights to which they are constitutionally guaranteed, all because their sexual orientation denies them an official marriage.
At Whitman we enjoy talking about "breaking out the of the bubble." As the semester wears on, many of us sign up for OP trips or go on road trips to Seattle, attempting to satisfy this nagging feeling...
Last week PacifiCorp—the utility company that provides electricity to Walla Walla—agreed to remove four of its dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California, as the dams have devastated the Klamath's salmon runs.
PacifiCorp's four hydroelectric dams block returning salmon from reaching their ancestral spawning grounds. If we want salmon to survive, we must remove more dams than just those on the Klamath.
