Time Magazine is not the first to use women’s rights as a bargaining chip in wars waged on behalf of the U.S. in the Middle East.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) dismissed Elena Kagan because she credited Justice Thurgood Marshall as a role model. Clearly, this indicated that she favored “judicial activism” too highly.
SAIC Moves to New Student Loan Initiative. Students will pay lower interested rates on federal student loans, one benefit of The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
A Tea Party Rally and an Anti-War demonstration have both descended upon the Loop in recent weeks.
The controversial scholar and author who swore he’d never return to Chicago, was back in town on Friday, April 16th, focusing on the issue of Gaza as a human rights violation.
Arts & Culture · Politics · Theatre
The Lost Boys meet the American dream in a new Chicago play that relies on stereotype in order to critique it.
Got problems? Then by all means, heap the blame on the nearest available elected official and wait petulantly until your whims have been catered to.
Alumni · Design · Interviews · Politics
Sol Sender, leader of creative development for the Obama ’08 campaign logo, discusses his creative process
The male dominated culture of Critical Mass bike rides prompted a DIY activist movement for mass rides to include GLBTQ bikers and empower female cyclists…
Alumni · Arts & Culture · News · Politics
Art Therapy Department Chair Catherine Moon did not know about Global Alliance for Africa until she received a call from them in 2008. Shortly after, she was on a plane to Tanzania…
Arts & Culture · Interviews · Politics
I think what we need to realize is that what we call our location is increasingly shot through with connections to the rest of the world, especially in a globalized economy.
By juxtaposing the subjective and the mundane with the politically charged, Sekula succeeds in asking the visitor, “Where does politics lie?”
Batty Fox News talk show host fancies himself an art historian and critic
Arts & Culture · Politics · School
By Brandon Kosters
SAIC undergraduate Matthew Ping, 26, is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. He is one of many veterans who uses the creative process as a means of coping with his experiences serving overseas.
“When I came to SAIC in January [2009], I was looking for veteran artists. I was hoping to start a [...]
Obama · Politics · Social Issues
It may be difficult to sift through the heaps of extraneous media coverage to discover Obama’s successes and failures.
Why I love Capitalism
by Aurélie Beatley
I love capitalism because I’m a soulless consumerist wretch, and I’m not sorry. Actually, I love capitalism because I’m familiar, first-hand, with the soft-core socialism that permeates most of Europe, and that system is idiosyncratic, at best.
See, my grandparents live in a small provincial capital in Southern France called Aurillac, [...]
Will the Chicago Summer Games be revitalizing or parasitic?
“Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth,” currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, takes a radical new approach to the retrospective exhibition in its ingenious curation of artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944).
Freezing temperatures and blizzard conditions did not deter the determined group of activists. However, the message may have been lost.