Opinion

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OPINION

Letter to the Editor: Call to Action — UW Administration is Discriminating Against International Student Workers

By Matthew Mitnick , Lennox Owino , Brian Li and Samuel Jorudd | Nov. 28, 2020

With this decision to deny telecommuting students their hard-earned wages, international students and other students telecommuting to work are locked out of the many ways they can support themselves financially, as they partake in their studies online and attempt to work from home in the midst of a global pandemic. 

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OPINION

Badger football is back … but for how long?

By Samantha Telson | Nov. 19, 2020

The decision to bring back college football was made too fast. Not enough safety protocols were established and the health of students at these campuses was put at risk. 

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OPINION

Woke culture destroyed the ‘blue wave’

By Ian-Michael Griffin | Nov. 19, 2020

If we were to extract all offensive aspects of culture in an attempt to create a national “safe space,” no one's beliefs would ever be challenged and we as a society would become stagnant. 

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OPINION

Only Yards Away but Miles Apart

By Ian-Michael Griffin | Nov. 12, 2020

A new president has, for better or worse, been elected by the people of the United States, but as a nation we are unable, much like the president himself, to concede our partisanship and embrace a national pride and respect for our own countrymen.

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OPINION

Welcome, Madam Vice President

By Samantha Telson | Nov. 12, 2020

Kamala Harris made history on Nov. 7, shattering the glass ceiling and becoming the first woman vice-president-elect in history. She is the first woman and first woman of color to hold this office — a major milestone that exposes our nation’s damaging history of racial injustice and patriarchy.

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OPINION

Letter to the Editor: Opponents of new housing are wrong

By Zhou Enlai | Nov. 11, 2020

By growing the quantity and quality of the housing stock in Madison, you open up new funding to promote affordable housing initiatives.

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OPINION

Letter to the Editor: Restructuring the Common Council would make it less accessible. It could still be a good idea.

By Zhou Enlai | Nov. 5, 2020

If the task force recommendations are implemented, we might be able to attract the caliber of representative we deserve by getting access to candidates who are currently unwilling to serve because of the low compensation. 

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OPINION

Counting votes is not “stealing the election” — it is an election

By Haley Bills , Riley Sumner and Samantha Telson | Nov. 5, 2020

Trump has been trying to delegitimize ballots counted after election day, even though history reveals that states have always remained counting after election night.

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OPINION

What is media bias?

By Riley Sumner | Nov. 5, 2020

News outlets’ shifts in coverage practices, however, have a critical misunderstanding — political bias is not the problem.

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OPINION

Voting should be easy: SCOTUS refusal to extend deadline for mailed ballots suppresses voters

By Haley Bills | Nov. 3, 2020

Democracy does not look like this — voting should be easy.

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OPINION

Please vote, but not because everyone is telling you to

By Ian-Michael Griffin | Nov. 2, 2020

It doesn't matter who you support, but it does matter that you take an active and educated role in society.

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OPINION

Trump abandoned the New World Order, Biden will rejoin it

By Jacob Laufgraben | Nov. 1, 2020

America must regain its place on the world stage because we are the only country capable of leading the new world order. 

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OPINION

Aim higher, think bigger: Vote Joe

By The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board | Oct. 30, 2020

We need someone to step up to the plate, to follow science and restore trust in our government and each other. We need Joe Biden. 

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OPINION

A vote for one is a vote for all

By The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board | Oct. 30, 2020

To those not convinced that their vote carries enough weight, or to those that are not compelled to act this election day, we urge you: Vote for those who cannot — their lives, that are equally as intrinsic and dignified as your own, deserve nothing less.

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OPINION

It gets… better?

By Sam Canney | Oct. 29, 2020

Today, the reversal of Obergefell is feeling more and more like a real possibility, and it’s scary to contemplate a world where I and my community, instead of seeing continued progress, are even further marginalized by the government and once more deprived of our freedom to marry the people we love. 

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OPINION

Continuing the Fight for Women’s Rights

By Alexandra Seidler | Oct. 29, 2020

People with uteruses have been scared for the protection of their reproductive rights for countless years. Unfortunately, those same people are waiting for the outcome of a terrifyingly hostile overturn of  Roe Vs. Wade that has been proposed by national Republican leaders.

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CAMPUS NEWS

Letter to the Editor: Refusal to commit to renewables the real spooky season

By Maya Barwick | Oct. 26, 2020

It isn’t just the national economy and job market that are suffering from the fossil fuel industry and the effects of climate change. Each community in Wisconsin is facing its own unique struggles.   

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OPINION

And they all fall down: It’s time to reimagine America’s political systems

By The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board | Oct. 23, 2020

From our systems of policing and criminal justice to the two-party system at large, the structures that govern our lives at the local and national level must be re-evaluated, rebuilt and reorganized.

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OPINION

Far Right is organizing and arming; speaks to creeping fascism

By Philip Klinker | Oct. 22, 2020

Militias need to be met with equal left wing organization in the form of labor unions, political organizations and electoral organizations.

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OPINION

Flies and childlike name-calling — a look into the two debates

By Samantha Telson | Oct. 20, 2020

The Presidential candidates and the Vice Presidential candidates shared one thing in common — they avoided answering questions as any “good” politician does.