Rape is Not A War Tool
Imagine living in a war-torn country, trying to find any way to survive. You see a soldier from the other side. Instead of killing you, he horrifically forces himself upon you, ripping away your innocence. […]
Category: Society
How One Pedophile Brought Unity to Thanksgiving After 399 Years
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday, and it is the foundational story of this country. When the pilgrims landed in what would become Plymouth, Massachusetts, after completely missing their original destination of the mouth […]
State of the Race: The Rise of Elizabeth Warren
The 2020 Democratic Primary has been a wild ride so far. Apart from events relating to Trump, like the impeachment proceedings, that have affected the Primary, the race itself has been unprecedented in many ways. The […]
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 […]
The Ethics of Unpaid Internships
Internships, both paid and unpaid, have become a recent phenomenon in 21st century United States. Undergraduate college students experience pressure to graduate with an internship on their resume to prove to employers that they have […]
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 […]
Sexism Kills: Medical Misogyny and Ignorance of Female Bodies
In the 5th century BCE, followers of Hippocrates—the founder of Western medicine—published “The Hippocratic Corpus.” The exact writers of this ancient text are lost to history, but their views of the human body prevailed for […]
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 […]