Jason Campbell

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President Obama should embrace principles, avoid politically viable actions

December 3, 2012

A proposition widely asserted is that President Obama is a president who makes pragmatic decisions.

Leaders need to envision greatness

November 8, 2012

Polar Politics: Views against LGBT rights demonstrate bigotry, hatred

October 8, 2012

The personal greatness of any individual can be assessed by his or her ability to stand on the right side of history.

Millenials face past generation's mistakes

October 3, 2012

The greatness of a generation is measured by how that generation mastered its time.

Voter ID laws threaten to strip away democracy

September 27, 2012

The promise handed down to every succeeding generation in the United States since its founding has been that regardless of how much personal wealth an individual may have amassed or how much political power they possess, the greatest equalizer of the democratic process comes on Election Day by voting.

Polar Politics: Democratic National Convention

September 6, 2012

After last week's Republican National Convention, here's what two of our writers thought of Obama and the DNC

State of presidential campeign indicates America's flaws

August 29, 2012

A quote often (perhaps falsely) attributed to Alexis Tocqueville is that “in a democracy, the people elect the government they deserve.” If this quote reflects reality, Americans do not deserve of the type of government we think we do.

Polar Politics: Buffet Rule

April 30, 2012

Last week, a majority of members of the United States Senate voted to pass President Obama’s proposed “Buffett Rule.”

Polar Politics: Mitt Romney

April 12, 2012

What Romney's inevitable nomination by the GOP means to the November election.

Polar politics: Implications of Obamacare

March 29, 2012