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Guest Commentary

Clyde Garland is running for Sheriff of Brazos County.

Guest Column: Clyde Garland for Brazos County Sheriff

Editor’s Note: The Battalion recently offered all the candidates running for public office in the cities of Bryan and College Station as well as Brazos County the opportunity to submit guest opinion...

Bob Brick

Guest Column: Bob Brick for College Station City Council Place 1

By Bob Brick, Guest Contributor October 29, 2020

Editor’s Note: The Battalion recently offered all the candidates running for public office in the cities of Bryan and College Station as well as Brazos County the opportunity to submit guest opinion...

Guest Commentary: Elizabeth Cunha

Guest Column: Elizabeth Cunha for College Station City Council Place 4

Editor’s Note: The Battalion recently offered all the candidates running for public office in the cities of Bryan and College Station as well as Brazos County the opportunity to submit guest opinion...

John Nichols speaks at an event thanking citizen committee volunteers in 2016.

Guest Column: John Nichols for College Station City Council Place 5

By John Nichols, Guest Contributor October 26, 2020

Editor’s Note: The Battalion recently offered all the candidates running for public office in the cities of Bryan and College Station as well as Brazos County the opportunity to submit guest opinion...

Guest Commentary: Linda Harvell

Guest Column: Linda Harvell for College Station City Council Place 3

Editor’s Note: The Battalion recently offered all the candidates running for public office in the cities of Bryan and College Station as well as Brazos County the opportunity to submit guest opinion...

Petitions have been created for the removal and against the removal of the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue in Academic Plaza.

A Bad IDEA

Jared M. Hill is a senior contract negotiator for Sponsored Research Services at Texas A&M. The opinions in this article expressly reflect the ideas and opinions of the author and do not reflect the...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In honor of Justice Ginsburg

L. Aspen Domeracki Harris, Class of 2013, lives and works in Washington D.C.  Washington D.C. seemed deserted that day, but more people than expected were walking up the National Gallery. It was strange...

US and China

What the One-China Policy is and why it’s time to ditch it

By Daniel Cheng, Guest Contributor September 13, 2020

Daniel Cheng is a biomedical engineering junior and has previously contributed to articles published in The Diplomat, a DC-based foreign policy magazine.What exactly is the One-China Policy? Well,...

Joe Biden

The Big Tent Movement

Patrick Mann is a recreation, park and tourism sciences senior and John Harkins is an industrial distribution junior. Both are members of Students For Biden. On Jan. 20, 2017, politics in the United States...

Texas A&M professors discuss the possible implications of a Restricted Occupancy Overlay and what it could mean for College Station students and residents. 

College Station’s Residency Occupancy Overlay hurts students

Sam Somogye is a political science senior and a College Station resident. The College Station City Council — composed almost entirely of members of the College Station Association of Neighborhoods...

Sully Letter to the Editor

Former student responds to petition to remove Sul Ross statue

Mickey Coe, Class of 1966, is a veteran of the United States Marines Corps.Recently, a classmate of 1966 sent me a petition for removing the Sully statue. Either someone at Texas A&M is not teaching...

Atatiana Jefferson (standing) was killed by a Fort Worth Police officer who shot her through her bedroom window on October 12, 2019. The officer responsible for killing Jefferson was arrested, charged with murder and is currently awaiting trial.

Don’t tell me how to process police brutality

Kenya Robinson previously served as a life & arts editor and news reporter for The Battalion from 2017 to 2019. Kenya is currently a 3+2 graduate student at the Bush School of Government and Public...

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