“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, […]
Category: Columnists
Chasing the Communist Bait: How America Has Spread Itself Too Thin
It was only a few months ago that the leaders of North and South Korea made a historic agreement to formally end the Korean War, thus ending the 65 year-long armistice, and one of the […]
Oil Sanctions, Barter Systems, and the State of U.S.-Europe Relations
In May of this year, the Trump administration announced their intent to withdraw from the Obama-era Iran-P5+1 nuclear disarmament deal and plan to re-impose prior sanctions placed on Iran’s oil sector. Earlier this November, these […]
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 […]
The Complications of Simple Majorities
“I don’t believe that I can support a cloture resolution providing for cloture by a simple majority vote. The difficulty with any cloture is that it changes the entire character of the debate, and that […]
Are We Facing a Democratic Party in the Process of Radicalization?
Evident within the past decade or so, perhaps coinciding with the advent of social media platforms and greater media attention to our national political divide, the more radical elements of the right and left have […]
It’s Time for America to Capitalize on the Wrongs of Capital Punishment
The number of deaths resulting from capital punishment have reached an all-time low since 1991. Despite much of the chaos we see today, only 23 prisoners have been executed in 20171. A Gallup Poll conducted […]
Xi Jinping is Not Reading His History
Asia is in a state of flux. As many see the Western ideas of democracy and freedom retreating in the Orient, there is potential for history to repeat itself. This was most recently experienced in […]