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The Dartmouth
April 17, 2026
The Dartmouth
Opinion

Opinion

Kim: Culture of Escalation

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With the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens still fresh amidst the growing wildfire of anti-American sentiment across the Middle East, a schlocky, roughly edited YouTube video has emerged as the alleged motive for the crimes.



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Casler: Alarmism in the Middle East

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On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly denounced President Barack Obama for failing to draw clear "red lines" around Iran's nuclear program and rebuked the United States' "moral right" to hold Israel back from independent military action.






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Michel: How to Learn More

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Albert Einstein once mocked, "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." One might think that education, above all else, would embrace and benefit from new methodologies and technologies.


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Pedde: The Economy Still Sucks

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Last month, the national unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent. Given that the unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent in October 2009, the economy must have improved significantly over the last three years, right? Actually, no.



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Kim: A Transnational "Style"

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Over the summer, I first heard of the stratospheric popularity of Korean music artist Psy's "Gangnam Style," not from my Korean friends or relatives, but from a Taiwanese-American acquaintance who is an avid aficionado of American rap music.



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Kim: Embracing Disappointments

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Yoon Ji Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Here's my benediction for the Class of 2016: Prepare to be disappointed. By the virtue of the fact that you have been admitted to one of the most elite universities in the nation, you've likely scored astronomically on your standardized tests and reaped numerous distinctions and accolades.



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Kim: Exceptional Americans

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For my past two consecutive off-terms, I've crisscrossed the North American continent whenever my jobs allowed, seeing the sights in Boston, Montreal, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Vancouver, New York and Los Angeles.



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Mehring: Removing the Stigma

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It has been a bloody couple of weeks: a barrage of bullets at a midnight movie screening, a hate-fueled massacre at a Sikh temple, a shootout on the outskirts of a Texas university and now, most recently, a close call when a security guard thwarted a gunman's attempt to open fire at a "pro-family" organization in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. The recent spate of random gun violence has predictably reignited the "right to bear arms" debate, with politicians from both sides of the aisle using these recent incidents as evidence either for stricter or for looser gun laws.