The Insulin Crisis
Imagine a tax on air. Now imagine a tax on your pancreas, which creates a hormone called insulin. Insulin allows your muscles and tissues to absorb glucose, a sugar, into your blood. Essentially, insulin […]
Author: J Elizabeth Mascoli
The Epstein Effect: Can We Stop Caring Yet?
Jeffrey Epstein is dead, and thank God about it. We can all move on with our lives. Right? It took me a while to be able to sit down and write this article, because I […]
Rehab vs. Control
Over 2.3 million people, adults and juveniles alike, are currently in some sort of correctional facility in the United States. Our country has the highest rate of incarceration per capita in the world, yet over […]
The Electoral College: Extinction or Evolution?
The biggest news of the 2020 electoral season (so far) is the ever-growing pool of Democratic candidates whose progressive policies are ever more in the mainstream. Recently, the senator from my lovely home state of […]
“Pro Not-Dying”
February 14th, 2018: Nikolas Cruz kills seventeen people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. May 18th, 2018: Dimitrios Pagourtzis kills ten and wounds ten in his own high school in Santa Fe, […]
Pink, White, and Blue: The Most Recent Transgender Fight
The LGBT community has made great strides in the past few years with the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage, as well as the growing visibility and awareness of LGBT issues. However, the community does still […]