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The front gates of Louisiana State Penitentiary stand below passing clouds in Angola, LA.

OPINION: Louisiana needs to end its money-making prison system

By David Schneider @NolaDavidS March 8, 2016

Louisiana’s prison system is a disgusting and corrupt money-making machine that wheels and deals in human lives on the cheap. This system sacrifices fairness for profit. Instead of treating prisoners...

Republican President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Concord, N.C., Monday, March 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

OPINION: Democrats need to unify around single candidate to defeat Trump

By Garrett Hines @GarrettH_TDR March 7, 2016

Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election. The time for hoping for a different outcome is long gone. We need to prepare for the most likely result. Sen. Ted...

Taylor Swift arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

OPINION: Pop music lacks creativity and life

By John Gavin Harp @SirJohnGavin March 7, 2016

In 2016, the state of pop music is about as lifeless as the rotting corpses from “The Walking Dead.” I don’t know what’s more depressing: a zombie apocalypse or Meghan Trainor being...

A woman marks her vote for Florida's Senator Marco Rubio during Puerto Rico's Republican primary in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sunday March 6, 2016 . Puerto Rico residents cannot participate in general presidential elections but can do so in primaries. Puerto Rico sends 20 delegates to the Republican convention.(AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

OPINION: Students should pay attention to financial regulations in election cycle

By Jay Cranford @hjcranford March 6, 2016

Tax plans. Wall Street. Minimum wage. Jobs moving overseas. If you haven’t heard these soundbites, you haven’t been paying attention to the 2016 presidential election. All the candidates, from...

LSU students show their support during the Student Government debate on March 3, 2016 held in the Union Ballroom.

OPINION: SG should be abolished to save students money

By Jack Richards @jayellrichy March 6, 2016

The relationship between the University and student fees is like the relationship between broke college students and stripping. It feels a little sleazy, unbecoming and you swear you’d never *actually*...

LSU electrical engineering junior and student body presidential candidate, Zach Faircloth, and child and family studies junior and vice presidential candidate, Lindsey Landry, of the Forward 2016 campaign participate in the Student Government debate on March 3, 2016 held in the Union Ballroom.

OPINION: SG tickets offer mostly empty promises to marginalized groups

By @michbeyer Michael Beyer March 3, 2016

The Student Government debate focused on diversity and commitment to marginalized groups, but the campaigns don’t differ much in solutions or even campaign colors. Both tickets’ platforms wouldn’t...

OPINION: Meeting the minimum graduation GPA may hurt you in the future

OPINION: Meeting the minimum graduation GPA may hurt you in the future

By Clarke Perkins @ClarkePerkins March 3, 2016

As May quickly approaches, many upperclassmen are suffering from senioritis, and the rest of the student body is just trying to make it through the remainder of the semester. The phrase “C’s...

Gasoline prices are posted at a filling station, Wednesday, March 2, 2016, in Philadelphia. Gasoline prices are expected to keep rising until summer but remain far cheaper than in recent years, due to the worldwide glut of oil. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

OPINION: Future prospects for oil no longer as dreary

By Garrett Hines @GarrettH_TDR March 2, 2016

Oil’s price per barrel may have finally hit rock bottom, but Louisiana’s clown car of an economy could shift from reverse to neutral and even drive in the near future. Our state’s largest...

Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump delivers a speech on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, during a rally hosted in the Baton Rouge River Center.

OPINION: Trump is the new norm, voters should get used to it

By Jack Richards @JayEllRichy March 2, 2016

It’s two in the morning. My hair is in disarray, and my fingers are caked in Doritos residue. I frantically refresh Twitter, desperate for some flash of hope in the sea of madness. There is none....

OPINION: Faircloth should work for students, not own ambitions

OPINION: Faircloth should work for students, not own ambitions

By Michael Beyer @michbeyer March 2, 2016

If you want Student Government’s executive branch to continue as an exclusive country club, vote for Zack Faircloth in the March 7 election. Faircloth is campaigning in the tried and true SG tradition...

cartoon courtesy of Kiré Thomas

OPINION: Super Tuesday determines fate of presidential candidates

By John Gavin Harp @SirJohnGavin February 29, 2016

The voting booths are going up on a Tuesday, and voters should be choosey when casting their ballots. As citizens flock to vote today, they should keep the dynamics of the political sphere in the back...

Former Massachusetts Gov., and 2012 Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney pauses while speaking at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

OPINION: Mitt Romney should launch Independent run

By Justin DiCharia @JDiCharia February 29, 2016

With most polls showing Republican candidate Donald Trump winning by double digits, the GOP establishment is about to crumble under the weight of a monster it failed to take seriously, and the only Republican...