Op-Eds, or opinion editorials, are typically published in daily newspapers and can raise awareness about a particular topic or aim to persuade others. This collection features Op-Ed pieces by students taking Political Science courses.
Submissions from 2018
Maga, Memes, and Magnificent Hair: How Have Alt-Right, White Supremacy, and White Nationalism Become Rooted in American History?, Gabriel A. Tucker
Submissions from 2016
The Usurper: Trump, Islamophobia, and the Decline of Reagan Conservatism, Michael A. Baugh
Republican Party Jumps on Board for Islamophobia, Sophie Bennett
The Common Discourse of Islam in America, John J.R. Burger
I’m Not Racist, I Love Those People: How Trump’s Language Reveals His Bigotry, Grace A. Carlson
All For One and One For All: When We Target Muslims, We All Lose, Samantha G. De Forest-Davis
I am Muslim, but Muslim is Not Me, Nofisat Eletu
Islam Vs. The World, Brooks M. Fiedler
Islamophobia “Trumps” Reason, Ryan L. Greene
To be Human, Adiba Hasan
If We Have to Wake Up (Would You Stop the Rain?), Dylan C. James
In the Line of Fire, Maggie MacDonald
Leading Trump: Why the United States Shouldn’t Accept the Hand that has been Dealt, Dorothy M. Mutum
Public Policy in the 2016 Election, Trevor J. Rogers
What do Donald Trump and John Quincy Adams have in Common? Islamophobia, Christopher S. Saladin
All Muslims Hate America, Grant T. Slater
Can Trump Be Stumped?, Gabriel A. Tucker
Remaking American Greatness, Aubrey M. Waddick