How Donald can solve the North Korea Crisis
Are you worried about North Korea nuking you in your sleep? Is Weird Al Yankovic’s “Christmas at Ground Zero” playing on a loop in your head these days? Never fear! The sentient...
Category: Current Affairs
Be careful who you call a ‘Nazi collaborator’
Charlottesville woke many Americans up to the painful, terrifying truth that Nazis do indeed exist in modern America, they are employing violence, and they are growing in strength, numbers,...
Can the United States resist the rise of white supremacism?
Events this weekend in Charlottesville, Va., may have become a historic tipping point for a nation struggling with racism, moral bankruptcy, and a vacuum in leadership. The question many...
Diplomacy, not tweets, will solve the North Korea crisis
The rhetoric between the U.S. and North Korea appears to signal we are on the march to a regional conflict. North Korea says it is ready to “teach the U.S. a severe lesson” and that...
Republicans exploit tragedies and torture families for political gain
Kate Steinle was murdered in 2015 by a felon and undocumented immigrant who had been deported from the United States five times. Her murder was tragic, but not tied to larger patterns, as...
Protecting truly free speech is hard work
Recently I undertook a final year undergraduate class in political philosophy. The opening lecture commenced with a trailer from 1984 (1984). This film adaptation of George Orwell’s...
The Other Madman in the White House
For some young people, myself included, the name Alex Jones is not unfamiliar. He’s the guy from the gay juice-box video. In one of the most classic items in the Infowars canon, Jones...
Syrian missile strikes and the new cold war
Donald Trump’s recent military strike on Syria, supported by both Democrats and Republicans, is based on assumption and lacks any sort of direction. The injustice done in the Syrian...
The Chinese Exclusion Act and the Muslim Ban: An American Tradition of Alienation
In 1882 America banned Chinese people from coming to America. It was the first time that America placed legislative restrictions and regulations on a group of people who sought entry into the United...
The American right is criminalizing immigrants
In Trump’s February 28th address to a joint session of Congress, he announced the creation of a new office in the Department of Homeland Security, VOICE — Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement...