By Eden Iscil — In a political era known for its toxic partisanship, substandard bills, and restrictive legislative process tightly controlled by leadership, to argue that complex Senate rules somehow produce the opposite is nonsensical and far removed from reality.
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By Gaspard Delaoustre — Their names were Lexi, Monika, Dustin, Nina, Tony, Summer – all were transgender women and men or nonbinary individuals, and all were killed in 2020. Last year, at least 45 trans and nonbinary people were murdered – a gut-wrenching increase from 2019.
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By Emily Hoofnagle — The past two decades have afforded the United States no shortage of disasters. From Hurricane Katrina to the 2008 financial crisis, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the ongoing pandemic, each year seems to bring a new disaster, with the mega-crisis of global warming looming on the horizon. The federal government should have foreseen or avoided each of these disasters.
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By Samuel Murray — The student debt crisis in the U.S. affects nearly one in every five adults. We are rapidly approaching $2 trillion of student debt held by over 45 million Americans. Fifty five percent of people under 30 who went to college took on debt. The U.S. must act now to alleviate this burden as a direct form of stimulus to millions of American.
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By Samuel Murray — Biden has an opportunity to act in this political time as a transformational leader. It is up to him to act, and to give the American people the confident leadership we desperately need.
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by Samuel Murray, columnist Americans from all political backgrounds unite around one abstract tenant of our political life: freedom. Since the declaration of independence was defiantly written, signaling a motion to end the tyranny of the British monarch on the colonizers of North America – a series of increasing returns towards the notion of American […]
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by Samuel Pence, columnist During his acceptance speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, candidate Joe Biden outlined his sales pitch to voters, offering Americans a chance “to heal, to be reborn, [and] to unite.” Yet since those words were spoken in August, many of the well-worn divides endemic to modern America have grown even […]
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by Samuel Murray, columnist America is in an uncomfortable situation for unemployment, stimulus relief, for substantive policy action. Congress is back from Thanksgiving recess before another Christmas recess, set to formally reconvene again on January 3. Newly elected Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona was recently sworn in the Senate, and we continue to await the […]
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by Lennet Penate, resident editor During the 2020 election cycle much of President-elect Joe Biden’s appeal to millions of voters focused less on their common ideological ground and more on one simple thing: He was not Donald Trump. However, now that Biden has been elected, this stance will not satisfy those attempting to hold him […]
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by Samuel Murray, columnist The 2020 election has brought high levels of anxiety, longer than normal vote counts, and a massive voter turnout. Both candidates have received more votes than any other presidential candidate in United States’ history, beating former President Obama’s record in 2008. One benefit that may come out of this election cycle, […]
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