President Trump’s No Good, Very Bad First 100 Days

This Saturday, President Donald Trump reached a milestone that many people and pundits have used since the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt to gauge how the rest of a president’s term will unfold: the first hundred days in office. If one were to ask the President how he feels about this 100-day benchmark, they would likely […]

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Presidential Debate Round 1

Foreman-Ali. McGreggor-Diaz. Pesi-Coke. All of these bouts between formidable opponents pale in comparison to what we will be seeing tonight when the two least-liked presidential candidates in the history of our country, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, go head-to-head at Hofstra University in New York in the first of three debates before election day. They will […]

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Standoff in Oregon

Ammon Bundy, leader of the armed right-wing militia group that invaded the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon, has been arrested after a shootout on Tuesday with federal agents that left one militia member dead and led to the arrest of six others. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents are currently […]

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Can’t Stump the Trump

​​A new poll released by Fox News after the third Democratic debate shows business mogul and wall enthusiast Donald Trump holding a commanding 20-point lead over his closest competition, Ted Cruz. His support among likely GOP voters is now at 39 percent– up 10 points from where he was a month ago. This latest surge comes after […]

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Izamar and I would like to apologize to the readers of In Loco Politico for not having posted anything in two weeks. Both of us attend universities in the UC system, UC Riverside and UC Irvine respectively. We are on the quarter system and this past week, we just finished winter quarter, our second in college. Speaking for […]

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ILP Special Post: #forBree

First and foremost, In Loco Politico would like to express our most sincere and deepest condolences to the Rodriguez family. May you find peace and calm after this heavy storm. This Superbowl weekend was supposed to be full of joy and celebration as America indulged in watching the most televised sports match of the year, Super […]

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Cold War II: Electric Boogaloo

It sure feels like we’re in the 1960s doesn’t it? On July 18th, Malaysia Air flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and was scheduled to land at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The flight path had the airplane flying over the Ukrainian-Russian border, which has recently been a hotbed of civil strife and fighting since […]

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Obama’s Katrina

A recent influx of immigrant children from South American countries has swamped immigration detention centers. Many of the children that are flooding into the United States are escaping the ever-growing gang violence and other economic disparities in their home countries. Although they come seeking a better life or to reunite with their family in the United […]

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