Opinion

Guest Columns

Op-ed: The benefits of submetering and learning how energy is used

By Ruby Tavernier | February 2

In its ongoing efforts to help control increasing energy costs while reducing environmental impacts, American University’s Energy & Engineering team (E&E) incorporates submetering to its practices.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: Maintaining our accountability in turbulent times

By The Eagle Editorial Board | February 2

The past few weeks have been filled with turbulence, transition and uncertainty. Nonetheless, the main theme has been “experience,” particularly that of D.C.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor: Regarding publication of the op-ed "Admitting Syrian refugees is inhumane"

By Emily Myers | February 2

Emily Myers responds to op-ed about Syrian refugee admittance

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Guest Columns

Op-ed: Let’s get realistic with nuclear power

By Bobby Zitzmann | February 2

Too often, environmentalists’ fervent calls for clean energy are matched only by their rejection of it

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Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Getting our facts straight on refugees

By Bobby Zitzmann | February 2

The 19th century writer Finley Peter Dunne first said that it is the job of newspapers to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” In essence, the press ought to use truth as a tool to prevent abuse of the powerless by the powerful.

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Guest Columns

Op-ed: Trump's trifecta of foreign policy failures

By Bobby Zitzmann | February 1

The president had a terrible Sunday

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Guest Columns

Op-ed: The impact of fake service animals

By Xena Itzkowitz | February 1

I have come to the realization that I have been underestimating the people of AU. During my past years on campus, I have neglected to speak about my experience of having a service dog - mostly because I was sure that not only would people not understand, but that I would be met with a level of distrust and general disinterest that I could not handle.

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Guest Columns

Op-ed: The Trump refugee ban: bad for conservatism, bad for national security

By Robbie Rosamelia | January 31

On Jan. 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that, among other things, bans foreign nationals from seven different countries, suspends the admission of refugees for 120 days and places an indefinite halt on the admittance of Syrian refugees.

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Guest Columns

Op-ed: Admitting Syrian refugees is inhumane

By Austin Cirillo | January 31

“There is nothing to fear but fear itself.” Since Jan. 20, from a leftist perspective, this statement could not be further from the truth.

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Opinion

If Tom Brady was Black

By Ryan Shepard | January 30

If Tom Brady was Black... If Tom Brady was Black, I don’t believe he would’ve been drafted into the NFL.

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Guest Columns

Op-ed: The right to an education

By Taylor Gilson | January 30

With the fall of Aleppo to pro-Assad forces , the international community is on the edge of its seat.

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Guest Columns

Dear Coach Brennan & AU men’s basketball…

By Alejandro Alba | January 30

Dear Coach Mike Brennan, the 1980s Princeton basketball team called— it wants its offense back.

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Opinion

Stop calling yourself a liberal if you aren't one

By Frank Yuwen Chen | January 27

A recent tweet by the then curator of the Twitter account @sweden really made me chuckle.

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Opinion

Dude, I’m just here to get an “education”

By Tyler Lin | January 25

What can I say? We live in difficult times and, in classic Chicken Little fashion, everyone’s screaming, “the sky is falling!” People running here and there, sending their resumes and CVs everywhere, and I’m just here trying to make mom and dad proud.

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Guest Columns

Op-ed: Standing out in a sea of pink

By Jaya Bali | January 25

Jaya Bali discusses her feelings after attending Women's March

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Guest Columns

Op-ed: Bringing the gift of play to kids of Mali

By Nathan Young | January 24

Can the game of soccer change lives?  A group of American University and University of Miami students tested that theory with a charity project we founded in 2015.

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Guest Columns

Op-ed: Bigotry isn’t controversial, it’s bigotry

By Anthony Kuykendall | January 19

Donald Trump is absolutely correct. There, I said it. His claims throughout the campaign trail and now in the days before his inauguration that political correctness has become a plague to public discourse could not be more true.

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