Investment banks are sounding the alarm on a looming recession while consumers worry about soaring inflation diminishing their purchasing power, a plummeting stock and bond market, slow GDP growth, rising interest rates, and an equity market decline. But what do actual economic indicators of recessions currently say about the likelihood of sliding into a recession?…
What’s Driving Inflation
Soaring inflation rapidly climbed 7% in the United States through December, the fastest since 1982. The rising price index isn’t a unique phenomenon, it’s been seen globally. However, it’s been more pronounced in the U.S. than in any other country. Policy makers argue over the causes among partisan lines, but what has really been the…
The Great Labor Awakening
A great reckoning has come for the American business model of labor exploitation — will corporations choose growing labor shortages and boycotts, or employee rights and fair pay? Although the top 10 percent in the U.S. own 70 percent of the U.S. wealth, the working class holds tremendous untapped power capable of transforming the corporatist…
Starvation Wages Caused The Labor Shortage, Not Unemployment Insurance
“No one wants to work anymore,” reads one sign taped to a McDonald’s drive-thru. Many fast-food and service industry companies are reporting that they’re facing a labor shortage created by unemployment insurance. This myth has been refuted by workers and analysts’ data. The real problem is the stagnant, starvation minimum wage which if it kept…
How Taxpayers Subsidize Corporations’ Starvation Wages
A recent study proved that large corporations use taxpayer money to subsidize starvation wages which leave employees relying on public assistance programs to just survive, while executives reap billions in profit. The Government Accountability Office undertook the study at the request of Sen. Bernie Sanders to answer questions about the relationship between employers and the…
Soaring Wealth Inequality and Pandemic Profiteers: A Call for Tax Reform
Mass hunger, unemployment, sickness, and an eviction crisis are things Americans are experiencing at a level not seen since the Great Depression through no fault of their own and with no relief. The other America, the billionaire class’ wealth has seen their wealth surpass a $1.9 trillion gain since mid-March, 2020 when most federal and…
Democracy Under Attack: 106 Reps. and 17 States Back Texas’ Seditious Election Lawsuit
The Texas GOP suggested secession from the United States this morning after, on Friday, the Supreme Court rejected a seditious, undemocratic lawsuit by Texas, supported by 106 House Republicans, asking to overthrow the election results from four states Trump lost in November — GA, MI, PA, and WI. The suit was filed by TX AG…
Voter Suppression Is Killing Our Democracy
A staggering 233 election cases are pending in federal courts facing off over voting rights during an election in a pandemic. Voter suppression rulings are already underway. Recently, a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Texas’ process for tossing absentee ballots over mismatched signatures, determining that the right to vote by mail is not…
Our Doubts Are Our Traitors
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt,” once wrote William Shakespeare. Fear of the outcome leads to automatic rejection from every opportunity we want. Years, decades will pass and you will look back and torturously wonder “what if.” The culprit? Anxiety — it rejects…
Tax Law: How the Wealthy Get Away With Evasion
While billionaires brag about tax evasion, the highest tax burden as a percentage of income falls on the poorest Americans. The lowest 20 percent of taxpayers pay a tax rate more than 50 percent higher than the top 1 percent of households. This should come as no surprise after the Panama Papers bombshell of 2016…
Are Economic Indicators Signaling a Recession?
Investment banks are sounding the alarm on a looming recession while consumers worry about soaring inflation diminishing their purchasing power, a plummeting stock and bond market, slow GDP growth, rising interest rates, and an equity market decline. But what do actual economic indicators of recessions currently say about the likelihood of sliding into a recession?…
12 Truths to Break Free from Social Anxiety
Rejected before anyone has said no, shut out before the door has closed, paralyzed with fear before the threat exists. You are being lied to. Manipulated, gaslit, and humiliated — all by your own doing — with vitriol you wouldn’t dare think of others, others who don’t think of you enough to do to you,…
You Need Purpose, Not Achievement
“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” – Arthur Schopenhauer It’s always the becoming we dream of, never the being, when we’re unaligned with our purpose. It’s purpose, not achievement, the void inside your meandering self craves. Through the sea of calamity, whips and scorns of life, people are…
The Arrival Fallacy is Blocking Your Happiness
The arrival fallacy is blocking your happiness. You were twelve and couldn’t wait to be sixteen and in high school. You were sixteen and couldn’t wait to be nineteen in college, finally out on your own. You were 19 and couldn’t wait to be 21. Graduated, first drink in hand, the unguided adult responsibilities hit…
You Are Your Own Voyeur: How Self-Objectification Erodes Cognitive Ability
“You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.” — Margaret Atwood History wasn’t changed through physical beauty. Imagine the world we’d live in if Joan of Arc, Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale, Margaret Hamilton, and Rosa Parks spent their days preoccupied with beauty ideals of their day and…
How Too Much Loss Aversion Leads to Utility Losses
Humans aren’t perfectly rational agents that make choices that maximize utility, when faced with risky choices that could lead to big gains, people are risk-averse, preferring to settle for choices that result in lower utility but higher certainty. While loss-aversion is beneficial in many situations, heuristics and personal biases cause us to miscalculate the probability…
What’s Driving Inflation
Soaring inflation rapidly climbed 7% in the United States through December, the fastest since 1982. The rising price index isn’t a unique phenomenon, it’s been seen globally. However, it’s been more pronounced in the U.S. than in any other country. Policy makers argue over the causes among partisan lines, but what has really been the…
Emotions Are Not Meant to Be Identity
Many of our problems are caused when we attach our identity to emotions and thereby, accept their conflating thoughts as fact. Emotions are meant to be felt and released, not identified with. The more we build limiting identities around ephemeral responses to external factors, the more we lose the true self by painting a limiting…
15 Mindset-Shifting Truths for 2022
Thank yourself for pulling yourself through the past year. The act of marching on during such emotionally, economically, politically turbulent times, in what seems like the second dark age, is the greatest feat of bravery. If you find yourself drifting into the new year, aimless, betrothed to the passing of time but unsure how to…
Gaining Inner Peace in a World of Eternal Dissatisfaction
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” Yet we spend the now — all we ever have — wishing, escaping, envying, and complaining it away — ad infinitum. A mind controlled by ephemeral external circumstances and validation is a mind of no peace at all — it’s…
The Great Labor Awakening
A great reckoning has come for the American business model of labor exploitation — will corporations choose growing labor shortages and boycotts, or employee rights and fair pay? Although the top 10 percent in the U.S. own 70 percent of the U.S. wealth, the working class holds tremendous untapped power capable of transforming the corporatist…
Is Biden Responsible for the 7-Year High Gas Prices?
Since the U.S. economic reopening began, gas prices rapidly hit a 7-year national average high of $3.24 a gallon. Consumers are feeling pain at the pump and wondering if this is the fruit of President Joe Biden’s energy policies. This oil and gas sticker shock threatens to strengthen the country’s biggest inflation scare in over…
Exposure Therapy and Walking by Faith to Combat Anxiety
No amount of self-care or escapism will ever change what only exposure therapy and stepping outside of your comfort zone by walking by faith does. Escapism will not yield growth, and withdrawing won’t cast out anxiety — it only deepens it. Anxiety is a fear-based unreliable narrator that rejects you before people and opportunities do….
Adopting a Growth Mindset — The Top Determinant of Success
If you protect yourself from the possibility of failure, you protect yourself from success. This is why the growth mindset — backed by neuroscientific research — is the number one determinant of success. Accepting that a learning curve and failure is part of the journey towards mastery and success, not innate ability, is what makes…
Time Spent Surviving Is Not Time Wasted
Millenials and Gen Z are more anxious and depressed than previous generations according to various studies. One Harvard Business Review study found that half of millennials reported leaving a job for mental health reasons, while that percentage rose to 75% among Gen-Z. Countless headlines constantly decry this generation’s delayed adulthood and the corresponding rate of…
Starvation Wages Caused The Labor Shortage, Not Unemployment Insurance
“No one wants to work anymore,” reads one sign taped to a McDonald’s drive-thru. Many fast-food and service industry companies are reporting that they’re facing a labor shortage created by unemployment insurance. This myth has been refuted by workers and analysts’ data. The real problem is the stagnant, starvation minimum wage which if it kept…
The Key to Success: Stop Letting Emotions Control Your Reality
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right,” Henry Ford once said. Doubt really is often the only dream killer. The only difference between those who do, and those who don’t, is the presence of self-doubt. There’s no inherent super-ability or extraordinary intelligence behind everyone’s success, but rather, self-responsibility and…
How Taxpayers Subsidize Corporations’ Starvation Wages
A recent study proved that large corporations use taxpayer money to subsidize starvation wages which leave employees relying on public assistance programs to just survive, while executives reap billions in profit. The Government Accountability Office undertook the study at the request of Sen. Bernie Sanders to answer questions about the relationship between employers and the…
Soaring Wealth Inequality and Pandemic Profiteers: A Call for Tax Reform
Mass hunger, unemployment, sickness, and an eviction crisis are things Americans are experiencing at a level not seen since the Great Depression through no fault of their own and with no relief. The other America, the billionaire class’ wealth has seen their wealth surpass a $1.9 trillion gain since mid-March, 2020 when most federal and…
How Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders Will Wield His Power
Incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will exert great influence over domestic economic issues that will finally help the American working class like never before through a special budget mechanism. Vowing to move quickly to push through an economic stimulus package and fight economic inequality to “boldly address the needs of working…
Thoughts Are Not Facts: 8 Strategies for Challenging Negative Thoughts
Our thoughts control our reality. They influence how we feel, how we act, and vice versa in a big feedback loop. This is why it’s important to internalize the following: you are not your negative thoughts. Anxious and depressive thoughts create an unreliable narrator that filter your world view through negativity. They make you view…
How Trump’s Rhetoric Incited a Violent Insurrection at the Capitol
In 1861, 11 senators and 3 representatives were expelled from Congress for supporting the insurrection and refusing to recognize Lincoln’s electoral win. Today, congressmen and republican governors are calling for the impeachment and/or removal of treasonous President Trump under the 25th Amendment for inciting a domestic terrorist coup attempt to stop the Electoral College count…
How to Actually Rewire Your Brain to Stop Procrastinating
Procrastination isn’t laziness, it’s the fear of failure. Ending the tendency to procrastinate requires a mindset shift that turns into a habit when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly. Challenging perfectionism, embracing a learning curve, and detaching your value from your performance is the key to getting started. After…
Democracy Under Attack: 106 Reps. and 17 States Back Texas’ Seditious Election Lawsuit
The Texas GOP suggested secession from the United States this morning after, on Friday, the Supreme Court rejected a seditious, undemocratic lawsuit by Texas, supported by 106 House Republicans, asking to overthrow the election results from four states Trump lost in November — GA, MI, PA, and WI. The suit was filed by TX AG…
Progressives Are Not Responsible for House Losses
Democrats wrongly blame progressives for a net five centrist candidate House losses despite Americans’ overwhelming support for progressive policies. All 112 co-sponsors of Medicare for All on the ballot won, and 97 out of 98 co-sponsors of the Green New Deal on the ballot won. A recent Fox News exit poll further corroborated the fact…
Economic Populism Can Combat Democrats’ Declining Minority Support
Trump won the highest share of non-white electorate vote of any Republican in 60 years, while moderate Democrats lost support and seats. Despite Joe Biden’s expected narrow win, Democrats face a disconcerting problem from declining minority and Latino support that can only be regained through the proven-effective economic populism of the likes of Bernie Sanders….
Losing Trump Campaign’s Ballot-Count Protests and Lawsuits Emerge
After vowing to go to Supreme Court over ‘fraud’ and refusing to commit to conceding to election results for months, the rapidly sinking Titanic of a Trump campaign announced legal action in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania after today’s counted ballots are securing a Joe Biden win. Belligerent Trump supporters barged into Detroit’s Central Counting Board…
Voter Suppression Is Killing Our Democracy
A staggering 233 election cases are pending in federal courts facing off over voting rights during an election in a pandemic. Voter suppression rulings are already underway. Recently, a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Texas’ process for tossing absentee ballots over mismatched signatures, determining that the right to vote by mail is not…
Our Doubts Are Our Traitors
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt,” once wrote William Shakespeare. Fear of the outcome leads to automatic rejection from every opportunity we want. Years, decades will pass and you will look back and torturously wonder “what if.” The culprit? Anxiety — it rejects…
Tax Law: How the Wealthy Get Away With Evasion
While billionaires brag about tax evasion, the highest tax burden as a percentage of income falls on the poorest Americans. The lowest 20 percent of taxpayers pay a tax rate more than 50 percent higher than the top 1 percent of households. This should come as no surprise after the Panama Papers bombshell of 2016…
Will ICE Face Accountability for Their Human Rights Abuses?
There is an ongoing DHS investigation into the forced hysterectomies performed on ICE detainees; an act of genocide with deep roots in US history. It was confirmed that the Georgia doctor performed two hysterectomies on detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center who allege they did not consent to such an abhorrent procedure. ICE —…
What Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee Means for Americans
Donald Trump’s nomination of conservative jurist Amy Coney Barret to the increasingly partisan Supreme Court has spared a deep confirmation battle. Many are contesting whether Americans’ having a stake in the decision requires waiting until the presidential election. Nonetheless, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin hearings on October 12th. What would a potential confirmation of…
Senate’s Performative Legislation Protects the Bloated Military Industrial Complex
The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act allocating $740.5 billion to the defense budget while including a plan to rename bases named after Confederates. This comes after voting down Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposed 10% cut in defense funding.
The Reconstruction Era’s Failures
“We’ve won the war. Now you have to lead us out of it,” General Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln (2012) encapsulates the Reconstruction Era’s limitations and failure to truly unite and rebuild post-Civil War America even a decade after. The Reconstruction Era was characterized by a fragmented country with a gridlocked Congress, violent, southern paramilitary…
The Causes of the Civil War: A Document Review
“These slaves constituted a peculiar rand powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of war,” Abraham Lincoln stated in his second inaugural address according to Major Problems (2). That single speech succinctly explained the cause of the Civil War fought from 1861 through 1865 – slavery. Slavery and the economic, political…
A Rational Choice Model Analysis of The Iraq War
The Iraq war is often cited as one of the worst intelligence failures in modern foreign policy history. The conflict claimed the lives of over 250,000 people under the false pretense that Iraq had obtained weapons of mass destruction (Matthews). Historians and foreign policy experts contest whether the framing of the intelligence resulted in war,…
The Global Ethical and Economic Impacts of Outsourcing
Industrial capitalism has relied on cost minimization through cheap labor since the Gilded Age — it’s now moved overseas where it’s had unsafe, exploitative ramifications in developing nations. The decline in US manufacturing since the 1970s has without a doubt transformed the economic landscape to the detriment of non-college educated American workers. The 14.3 million…
Ban Stock Buybacks Again
Stock buybacks used to be illegal, once considered a form of stock manipulation until 1982 when the SEC passed rule 10b-18 legalizing the practice under Reagan’s failed trickle-down agenda. Over the past 10 years, companies on the S&P 500 have put $5.4 trillion into purchasing their own shares instead of investing in the economy and…
Gratitude Without Complacency: Laboring Not in Vain
In our ever increasingly competitive job market how can we confound our unquenchable drive for success with humble gratitude and labor not in vain? How can we live an ethical life amid a “hustle culture” that demands we monetize our every living breath and action and compare ourselves against others who do? How can we…
The Failure is a Corrupt Two-Party System, Not Electoralism
Can electoralism ever produce a transfer of power to the working-class in a two-party system, or are corrupt political parties that will never allow change into power, elections dominated by corporate interests, and voter suppression the problems? According to the theory of democratization, the wealthy autocrat class only willingly surrenders power in times of extreme…
Eco-fascism: Humanity is Not The Problem, Neoliberalism Is
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has not only revealed the inherent, exploitative economic failures of an unfettered free market, but also, the environmental failures of capitalism as decreased fossil-fuel activity has cleared the air pollution in Asia, and canals in Italy. Yet there has been a rising online sentiment pinning global environmental deterioration on…
Coronavirus Exposes the Failings of American Capitalism
“We are only as safe as the least insured person in America,” Bernie Sanders, in one tweet, succinctly captured the individualist United States’ failed safety net amidst a coronavirus pandemic with now 10,502 cases occurring while 27 million are uninsured and the working-class grocers, delivery drivers and caretakers are on the front-lines as emergency workers…
No, The Federal Reserve Loaning Banks $1.5 Trillion Isn’t a “Bailout”
The Federal Reserve loaned $1.5 trillion to the financial system yesterday– $500 billion into short-term bank funding — and misguided critics believe the Fed exchanging cash for securities to increase liquidity and prevent a bank run is a government “bailout” and tantamount to “corporate welfare.” However, monetary policy is completely independent of fiscal policy (the…
Is the US Headed Towards a Recession?
As supply chains struggle under global health concerns over the spread of COVD-19, many are left wondering whether an economic recession in 2020 is imminent amid the 2,000 point plummet in the Dow, supply-chain disruptions among companies sourced in China, and weakened consumer demand in sectors such as oil and the airline industry. Data on…
The Productivity-Inflation-Wage Gap and the Effects of a $15.00 Wage Floor
If the federal minimum wage had kept up with the 657% increase in inflation and 176% rise in worker productivity over the past 50 years, it would be $21.72. It peaked in 1968 at $11.18 when the cost of a four-year public university was $329.00, according to National Center for Education Statistics, a manufacturing job…
Gain is Not Godliness: What the Bible Says about Wealth
“So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen (Matt. 20:16).” The blessed apostles who served God and not mammon were penniless, persecuted, imprisoned, Lazarus the greedy rich man burned while the beggar was carried to Abraham’s bosom, Jesus overthrew the moneychangers from the church and fed…
Climate Change Mitigation and The Future of Energy by 2040
Complete climate change mitigation is an alternative forecast that overlooks carbon-reduction solutions such as sequestration and nanotechnology that will be necessary to meet a 27% increase in global energy demand, provide electricity access in developing nations where 1 billion lack electricity and face barriers to renewable energy attainment. On our current baseline trajectory, renewables will…
Bernie Beats Trump: How The Most Electable Candidate Fights For You
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ surging lead in the polls, leading donations with a record 4 million small donors, and majority-support for his policies across demographics make it clear he’s not only the true populist in the race, but the most electable once-in-a-lifetime candidate. Faux-populism won in 2016, and centrism’s failure made it clear that ‘any…
The U.S.-Created Central American Asylum Human Rights Crisis
Despite previously accepting the most refugees globally, the U.S. has a dark history of denying asylum to those fleeing human rights abuses — from the Jewish refugees in the 1930s, to the Haitians during the Duvalier dictatorship, and Salvadorans fleeing political violence in the 1980s. Many times these crises have been caused by U.S.-led regime…
Pride – The Root of Discontent
Merely riding an undetectable pale speck on a universe spanning 93 billion light-years, our existence falls victim daily to our insignificant human conceits. Our psyches attempt to confront this vast, cosmic glory by assigning inordinate, life-or-death value to every inconvenience. We convince ourselves we are special, inherently cursed snowflakes, instead of humbling ourselves before the…
How Boy Meets World Raised a Generation
With, wholesome hilarity, plenty of heart, and edifying lessons, the unsurpassed sitcom Boy Meets World raised a generation of 90s kids. Laugh-out-loud funny yet wholesome, it managed to root itself in the real world and its many adversities by organically packing valuable, relatable life lessons into each episode through the wisdom of Mr. Feeny. As…
8 Spiritual Lessons for Young Adults
Your early 20s — the mental limbo of feeling like a teenager yet being treated like an adult while thrown into the unpredictable, proverbial abyss. Now imagine the added confusion and pressure of being apart Generation Z and ignoring worldly ways. Forget the “quarter-life-crisis,” 20 is the new age to ruminate over every career, life,…
How to Feed 9.8 Billion Sustainably
By the year 2050, the UN estimates the global population will reach a staggering 9.8 billion. One of the biggest existential challenges facing this population projection will be the 70% rise of food demand. With most growth generating from developing nations, high-yield agricultural solutions based on food technology, sustainability, precision farming, and genetically engineered crops…
Anxiety is a False Narrator
Anxiety is fueled by our negative perception, it quenches its ravenous appetite by telling us no before we even try, wraps it’s neurotic branches around our legs and paralyzes us. Anxiety denies us friendships before people have, it denies us opportunities before the jobs, admissions, internships, and clubs do. It denies us experiences in fear of the worst. Paralyzed, you live in fear of the worst instead of in hope of the best. Thereby creating a negative-feedback loop in which by protecting yourself from failure you protect yourself from happiness and an epic love, an epic career, and greatness. Here’s to combating your anxiety and low-self esteem.
Why Bernie Sanders Would Win in 2020
Faux-populism may have won in 2016, but American voters approve of Bernie Sanders real populism: 58% of non-white voters, 73% of African Americans, 68% of Hispanics, 56% of women, and 62% of 18-34-year-olds. These are your ‘Bernie Bros’ media.
Mexico’s Gilded Economic Inequality
From the Spanish crown to the corrupt camarilla elite, Mexico’s leaders have long kept a strangle hold on middle-class growth in Mexico. It’s the stimulus in the Mexican negative feedback loop of political turmoil – widespread poverty in the 12th world’s largest economy is the issue to end all other issues. Poverty fuels organized crime,…
Legalization: The End to Mexico’s Drug Violence
Over a decade after former President Felipe Calderon launched a militarized crusade against drug cartels, Mexico has recorded its highest homicide rate of 19.4 since the interior ministry began keeping records, with a staggering 29,168 murders in 2017. Despite lethal military deployment and a winning ‘kingpin-strategy’ (Nieto has neutralized 89% of drug-cartel leaders on his…
The Rise of U.S. Domestic Terror
The Third Reich didn’t begin with supporters of a nationalist demagogue bombing places of worship, killing worshiping Jewish people, vandalizing Jewish property, targeting political opponents, running opponents over with a car, violently attacking ethnic minorities on trains and shooting them in grocery stores, it rose in prominence through hateful rhetoric. These acts of violence conducted…
The Natural Talent Myth
No one is born knowing how to solve differential equations. A baby isn’t stupid for not knowing how to walk. Skill, it turns out, is just cultivated practice. Yet much our generation’s collective psyche – which heralds apathy and laziness – would have you believe if you’re not born with it, you should give up…
A Generation Z Guide: 25 Lessons Learned by 20
Born on the brink of a century, Generation Z is more “anxious, distrustful and downright miserable” than previous generations. We grew up through the 9/11 era, too young to understand the threat of foreign and domestic terror we’d live under, the Orwellian era of “Big Brother” we were being raised in, the adapting to catastrophic climate…
The Paradox of Tolerance for Intolerance
The extremist side of child-drugging internment camps, Obama effigies, Roy Moore, sexual assault, and mocking the disabled doesn’t care about civility; what they want is compulsory compliance, and dissent silenced in their administration’s persistent crimes against humanity. There is something seriously wrong with a nation showing more concern for wealthy operatives of administration rampant with human rights violations being kicked…
Abolish ICE: The Loss of 1,475 Children and Human Rights Violations
Declaring that children inhumanely separated from their asylum-seeking parents “are not innocent” is alarmingly on nazi, authoritarian levels, not on par with U.S. democratic values or the presidency. We are living through the second coming of Hitler with the Trump administration sanctioning state-violence against immigrants by planning military concentration camps for children, (unlawfully) separating migrant…
Discrimination Against Bilingualism Goes Back to WWII
A Trump-supporting New York attorney with a documented history of launching unhinged, racist tirades against strangers was recently caught on camera again verbally assaulting two bilingual people for speaking Spanish in public. Aaron Schlossberg berated an employee and a customer for conducting an order in Spanish saying, “Your staff is speaking Spanish to customers when…
Why Smart Kids Fail as Young College Students
Intelligence isn’t responsible for success. Hard-work and intelligence aren’t mutually exclusive. Natural ability/talent is the myth you comfort yourself with when everyone around you works and practices harder. These enlightening ideas are ones I had to come to terms with as I wondered where all the potential I was praised for as a precocious child…
America’s Gestapo: Redefining the Rule of Law
A 7-year-old asylee girl being locked up by ICE for four months at a Chicago jail has become America’s heralded “rule of law.” With the new Supreme Court ruling stating that immigrants, even permanent residents, and asylees, can be held indefinitely, internment camps have become the law of the land. As if the violation of…
Gun Control Has Always Worked
Since 2012 there have been 1,624 mass shootings in the U.S. We’re responsible for 31% of global mass shootings despite being 5% of the population, but guns are the only aspect of society we can’t seem to regulate. Since 1996, 167 of mass shooters’ weapons were obtained legally (49 were obtained illegally.) Somehow keeping guns out…
The Paradoxical Battle of Powerful Women
Everywhere, female professionals, leaders, and those at the top of their fields are described as “cold” and uncharismatic, degraded with slurs for the same neutral behavior men exhibit. Treading a careful line between our words and actions not carrying weight for being a woman, and being a ‘female dog’ for practicing a cultivated sternness as protection…
Courage Over Confidence
Behind every self-made story of success was not an individual with grandiose, insurmountable confidence, but rather a need greater than their fears. It is not the absence of qualms which led Joan of Arc to a French victory, or Malala Yousafzai to face off death for women’s education, but rather the belief that something was…
No Equality without Economic Justice
Why are people with the same economic interests so divided? It’s not “economic anxiety”; a vote in Iowa is the equivalent of 5 California votes. The answer is grounded in American history spanning back 300 years when racial animosity was harnessed by elite landowners to destroy class solidarity and prevent rebellions. Divided, those with the…
Trump’s History of Racism, Before Decrying Immigration from “Shithole Countries”
“Being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.” As if it was possible to hit a new low, Donald Trump has managed it with a series of brazenly racist comments bypassing previous dog-whistles. In a meeting this past Thursday, as confirmed by Sen. Durbin and Sen. Graham, he expressed the desire…
DACA Myths Debunked
The Trump administration has expressed a desire to kick out 800,000 young, tax-paying professionals, army members, and college students with a 91% employment rate and no felonies or misdemeanors by rescinding DACA, to fulfill a racist utopia. To kick out young adults who had no jurisdiction over coming here. While ignoring the facts: DACA has…
Bernie Sanders Myths Debunked
Nearing 2018, Clinton loyalists have taken it upon themselves to slander the most liked politician in America (who stands for the most statistically favorable issues.) Choosing to rehash the June 2016 primaries with slanderous narratives about Sanders while “Queen Hillary” drinks chardonnay in the woods, goes on a book blame tour, and turns down the…
Trickle-Down Economics Never Worked
Time and time again, history has proven our economy to be better under democratic presidents and, thus Keynesian economic policy. It’s no mystery as to why republican Congresses have been responsible for the last four major economic crisis in the: 1930s, 1970s, 2001, and 2008. Supply-side economics simply doesn’t work in non-Stagflation conditions. As it…
How Conservatives Have Bastardized the Meaning of Patriotism
“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” The Declaration of Independence, Statue of Liberty, Constitution, and general rule of law, are the new Communist flags to Russian flag-wielding, conservative, self-proclaimed “patriots.” In the past year, we’ve seen the political right launch a zealous campaign against American…
Trump Didn’t Just Embolden White Supremacists, He Sided with Them
Trump offers a defense of white supremacists which injured nineteen and killed Heather Hayes at Charlottesville: “What about the alt-left that came charging at us?” The events in Charlottesville undeniably solidified what some knew and many denied – racism, moreover, nazi ideology is alive and well in America and President Trump was the awakening force….
The Supreme Constitutionality of Affirmative Action
The politics of fear and hate has manipulated many Americans into feeling like the discriminated class because of perceived systemic ” reverse racism” — an ideology which has coincidentally proliferated since the civil-rights movement. White-Americans began feeling oppressed when African-Americans gained equal rights with the Brown v. Board ruling, Kennedy’s 1961 Executive Order, the Civil…
Why Moving Left is the Only Democratic Winning Strategy
The democratic party has been completely decimated. Democrats have moved too far right and suffered tremendous losses because of it. Sixty-nine, House seats gone, 13 Senate seats gone, and a White House gone. Nine-hundred-and-ten seats total gone under 8 years of a Democrat-controlled White House, handing over complete legislative power to the Tsar in chief….
The Bipartisan Case for Single-Payer
It’s time to stop putting political ideology over the welfare of the country. In the world-power that is the United States, medical expenses have long been the number one cause of bankruptcy, with 78% of filers already having health-insurance. It should be considered a serious issue when inhabitants of the wealthiest country have to choose…
The Unpopular President United People – Against Him
A number of 670 worldwide protests is not normal the day after a United States President takes office. It’s not normal for over 3 million people – many women – to feel an impending threat looming over their civil rights, looming over their democracy, that they’re compelled to go organize in crowds of hundreds of…
Highlights from Obama’s Farewelll Address
It was the perfect end to a surreal, phenomenal 8 years. Maybe one of the greatest speeches delivered in the last few thirty years. Embodying the values he carried so fervently behind every decision, Obama delivered the very message which he never strayed from; genuine, passionate, moving and most importantly hopeful. Hopeful in the face…














































































