http://www.pittpoliticalreview.org Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:38:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first Pitt Political Review Meeting of the 09-10 academic year will be Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 9 PM on the 35th floor of the Cathedral of Learning.  The Pitt Political Review is a nonpartisan journal with articles on everything from sewer issues in Pittsburgh to interviews with politicians. ... http://www.pittpoliticalreview.org/?p=62 Analysis of the Debt of the United States Federal Government, Fiscal Years 1977-2007 By Grant Babcock At the end of fiscal year 2007, the United States government owed upwards of five trillion dollars to outside entities (treasury report).  Additionally, it had borrowed almost $4 trillion from itself; most of this “intragovernmental” debt ... http://www.pittpoliticalreview.org/?p=61 New issues are available now in the Honors College and around campus.The Pitt Political Review is dedicated to rigorous discussion of politics on the local, national, and global levels. Our intention is to publish writing that analyzes issues, events and personalities, assuming nothing of the reader but a common interest ... http://www.pittpoliticalreview.org/?p=60 Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked, “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Though this prediction came at the turn of the 19th century, China’s current state could not be more aptly described by someone actually witnessing the country’s revitalization today. This ancient nation began its renaissance ... http://www.pittpoliticalreview.org/?p=59 In the summer of 2008 I saw the two stereotypes of Africa. Working for an NGO and living in a Congolese refugee camp in Northern Zambia, I woke up every day to the romanticized version of Sub-Saharan Africa – the land teeming with life and nature, beautiful scenery, long and ... http://www.pittpoliticalreview.org/?p=58 Conflict in the Congo is certainly not new. Since independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), formally known as Zaire, has suffered in a permanent state of transition and flux. The land and its people have not once experienced a sustained period of freedom, peace, and ... http://www.pittpoliticalreview.org/?p=57 Let me tell you a story about my second day as a teacher. As first period began most of my students were slowly getting settled and I was about to convene the class.  Wiry and dark-skinned, Cory hadn’t said a word the previous day, and now he walked in late.  ... http://www.pittpoliticalreview.org/?p=56 Pittsburgh has serious water problems. According to the Regional Water Management Task force, every year Southwestern Pennsylvania’s sewage system releases enough raw sewage into our groundwater to fill Heinz Field one hundred times. Southwestern Pennsylvania’s rivers, streams, and groundwater are so polluted that they are routinely in violation of the ... http://www.pittpoliticalreview.org/?p=54       Over the past fifteen years, India has had the second-fastest-growing economy in the world. That economic growth has meant consumption, and consumption has required energy — lots of energy. The need for power in India is higher than ever, and demand is rising fast. For the ... http://www.pittpoliticalreview.org/?p=55 A joke runs, “If you laid all the economists in the world end to end, you still wouldn’t reach a conclusion.” Economists are famous for disagreeing on fundamental questions, from health care to taxes to interest rates. So it’s worth listening when 87.5% of the American Economics Association agree the ... http://www.pittpoliticalreview.org/?p=53