Antonio Morales

17th July 2024

Morales: Political Violence in the Shadow of History

On Saturday, July 13th, during a typical Trump rally held in a large open field under the sweltering Pennsylvania heat, sudden loud noises and confusion erupted within the MAGA crowd. As the former President reached for his ear, scores of Secret Service agents urgently called for him to hit the deck. Chaos ensued as the former President had been shot….

17th July 2024

Morales: Political Violence in the Shadow of History

On Saturday, July 13th, during a typical Trump rally held in a large open field under the sweltering Pennsylvania heat, sudden loud noises and confusion erupted within the MAGA crowd. As the former President reached for his ear, scores of Secret Service agents urgently called for him to hit the deck. Chaos ensued as the former President had been shot….

9th July 2024

No Appetite for Hungary

As of July 1st, Hungary began its 6-month term as rotating President of the European Council. Almost immediately after Hungary’s accession, Viktor Orbán, Hungarian Prime Minister, made his way to Moscow to visit Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin.

26th June 2024

Morales: Cold War 2

On Tuesday June 17th, Russian Federation President, Vladimir Putin, landed in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, thus kicking off a summit with his counterpart, Kim Jong Un.

3rd June 2024

Trump is a Felon

May 30th, 2024 will be remembered as the day when Donald J. Trump became the first former president to be charged with felony crimes.

Daily Emerald • 12th June 2023

Morales: The GOP is in shambles

Opinion: The 2024 Republican Presidential primary will be a disjointed mess that will highlight to the American people that there are better options for our fragile country.

Election season is nearly here and soon we will all succumb to countless aggressive ads claiming to be the better candidate for president. Personally, I am not looking forward to this period, especially because of how fragile our country currently finds itself to be.

The stability of our nation depends on who the people de

Daily Emerald • 15th May 2023

Morales: AI is an infant

Opinion: Artificial Intelligence should not be heavily relied on as development goes on, making it increasingly difficult to tackle every problem created with this technological infant.

Daily Emerald • 2nd May 2023

Morales: Rated "T" for treason

Earlier this month the FBI conducted a raid at the home of Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old U.S. Air Force National guard member working in low-level intelligence. The Pentagon has come out and claimed that his release of classified material was a “deliberate criminal act.” But the more we learn about this case the more bizarre it becomes.

Daily Emerald • 24th April 2023

Morales: (Unfortunately) the U.S. military wants YOU

Opinion: As our geopolitical reality becomes grim, the U.S. military is desperate for immediate reassurance from Gen Z as the government pours millions of dollars into failed recruitment and retention efforts.

Civilian indoctrination of the military has been a constant recurring theme throughout America’s relatively short but violent history. During the twentieth century, various forms of propaganda were at the forefront of the United States’ military-industrial complex as colorful posters and

Daily Emerald • 7th April 2023

Morales: The problem with the “Greater Idaho Movement”

Opinion: The Greater Idaho Movement fails to recognize the dangers and problematic nature of redrawing state lines due to a large cultural divide.

Daily Emerald • 15th February 2023

Morales: DeSantis Land

Florida’s Republican Governor, Ron DeSantis, has recently stated that he intends to ban “state universities from spending money on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives” in hopes of destroying them without the funding. This is increasingly problematic...

Daily Emerald • 6th February 2023

Morales: Electric façade

Opinion: The electric vehicle industry fails to truly combat climate change due to inconsistent energy production and the harmful extraction of raw materials.

Daily Emerald • 18th January 2023

Morales: Balkan fever

Opinion: The actions of Russia’s unjust invasion of Ukraine marks the end of Serbia’s blind loyalty to Putin’s government after decades of regional and cultural instability. But will it be enough?

Daily Emerald • 21st December 2022

Morales: Elon Musk is a man-child who will ruin Twitter

Since Elon Musk officially purchased Twitter, the social media app has become a cesspool of conservative rhetoric and weird Musk stans. The space-obsessed billionaire has even allowed the return of Donald Trump, a racist and misogynistic ex-president via a public Twitter poll. But even Trump has refused to rejoin the beginning of the end of Twitter. Moreover, Musk also cleared house when he purchased the social media giant, causing a mass firing of employees and chair members. Twitter’s reputation will never be the same with an unfunny billionaire at its helm.

Daily Emerald • 11th November 2022

Morales: Don't blame the Iranian people

According to Afshon Ostovar, an Iranian national security expert, “the more people killed by regime forces, the more hardened anti-regime sentiments are likely to grow, and the more radicalized the younger generation is likely to become.”

Daily Emerald • 31st October 2022

Morales: The Oregonian choice

As long-running Democratic Governor Kate Brown’s term quickly winds down, we are again left to enjoy election season. Oregonians are left with three choices for the new face of our state: Tina Kotek, Democrat; Christine Drazan, Republican; and Betsy Johnson, Independent.

Daily Emerald • 11th October 2022

Morales: Russian Irresponsibility

Putin wants Western leaders to limit their military support for Ukraine by making such a threat. However, leaders such as U.S. President Biden’s national security advisor have come out to condemn these empty threats.

Daily Emerald • 11th July 2022

Morales: The Supreme Court's integration of church and state

On June 24, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with a 6-3 ruling. This decision leaves millions of women and people who can get pregnant extremely vulnerable as the federal right to an abortion no longer exists.

Daily Emerald • 18th April 2022

Russian reflection

On April 1, 2022, Moscow authorities announced a cruel joke to their college-age men. 134,500 Russian men will be selected in their spring conscription, forced to fight Putin’s war in Ukraine. This is compared to University of Oregon students and their fortunate lives which shows how innocent livelihoods can be turned upside-down in wartime. The Russian people are not the enemy, the Russian authorities are.