OPINION: Voting is crucial for civic engagement
MADELINE GREER, Evergreen columnist
October 15, 2020
Every four years, Americans have the opportunity to vote for a presidential nominee. We also have elections at other times to elect city, county, state and federal officials. This has been a bizarre year with a pandemic sweeping across the country and the world. The upcoming presidential election will...
OPINION: Presidential debates need to address climate change
MACKENNA ROWE, Evergreen columnist
October 13, 2020
Earth is not doing well, and the next president will help determine if there will be more detrimental effects. President Donald Trump’s policies are benefiting businesses at the expense of our environment. Joe Biden openly supports reducing pollutants and greenhouse gases, which will help slow climate...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: Inherent vice
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
October 8, 2020
“California über alles! Zen fascists will control you, one hundred percent natural. You will jog for the master race, and always wear the happy face.” -Dead Kennedys, “California Über Alles” Hats off to the Mike Pence fly. Politics is, without irony, a drug for those who weren...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: Grin and Barrett
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
October 1, 2020
“All this for a family squabble.” -Immortan Joe, “Mad Max: Fury Road” I recently watched “The Death of Stalin,” the Armando Iannucci film about the fight for power in the wake of the Russian dictator's untimely demise. In the movie, Nikita Khrushchev jockeys for control of the Soviet Uni...
WSU will not defer employees’ social security tax
BROOKLYNN HILLEMANN, Evergreen reporter
September 18, 2020
WSU is not participating in President Donald Trump’s executive order to defer social security tax for employees. At the beginning of the month, employers across the country were given the option to defer employees’ social security tax until Dec. 31, said Kimberly Lawton, WSU director of Payroll...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: By your logic
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
September 16, 2020
"My first thought was, he lied in every word." -Robert Browning, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" Joe Rogan wants to host the presidential debates. The UFC-commentator-turned-podcast-host voiced his opinion earlier this week in response to an ex-MMA fighter’s call for a Rogan-hosted debate. Moreover, Rogan isn’t the only would-be pa...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: meet the candidates
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
August 26, 2020
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” - Dante, “Inferno” (canto 3, line 9) Across the country, the ears of thousands of low-lives, human scum and villains out of a Dickens novel are perking up, as if responding to some hidden frequency. Lawyers, accountants, pundits and other people you ...
Political comedy is only funny when a speaker and their audience agree on the factual truths. The most important part of comedy is the ethics of...
