Opinions

The Article below was published in Vol. 135, Issue 2 of the Lake Forest College Stentor on October 18, 2019 By Maryam Javed ’21 Opinions Editor The bloody civil war in Syria has been raging for almost a decade now. Tensions have recently escalated further since President Donald Trump withdrew American troops from the region of Rojava in Northern Syria, predominantly inhabited by Kurds and Assyrians, which paved the way for Turkish forces to invade. Turkish military…

The Article below was published in Vol. 135, Issue 1 of the Lake Forest College Stentor on September 20, 2019 By Maryam Javed ‘21 Opinions Editor “Vaping has become a very big business, as I understand it, a giant business in a very short period of time. But we can’t allow people to get sick and we can’t have our youth be so affected,” President Donald Trump said at the Oval Office. Recently, the Trump administration announced…

The Article below was published in Vol. 135, Issue 1 of the Lake Forest College Stentor on September 20, 2019 By Nathaniel Bodnar ‘21 Staff Writer The defining moment of the latest Democratic debate was when Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) said, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15 and your AK-47.” He turned gun confiscation from a strawman argument that the right used against the left, to a serious policy proposal. O’Rourke proposed mandatory gun buybacks to…