Sitting in her daughter’s room, Alabama resident 35-year-old Kimberly expressed fears that time was running out for her to complete her family. In an ABC News interview, she lined up all of her medications and explained it was her fourth and final IVF treatment. Yet she was told to wait – a reality that many […]
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Biden’s LNG Export Ban Re-ignites Debates Over Fossil Fuels
The Biden administration put a temporary pause on the consideration of new U.S. liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities. This decision was made in the wake of protests from climate activists about the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska. The pause does not decrease the amount of U.S. LNG exports; it only prevents the approval […]
Electric Vehicles and Climate Policy: Where Do We Go From Here?
In 2016, Bloomberg’s Tom Randal boldly proclaimed “It’s looking like the 2020s will be the decade of the electric car.” It’s been eight years since, and electric vehicle (or EV) sales are dropping, worrying vendors and legislators over the durability of the California climate plan. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, cars contributed to […]
The Best DNC Agent: Big Tech
On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden was sworn in as the President of the United States and while there were split opinions across the nation, behind the closed doors of Twitter and Facebook, there was likely a celebration as months of working to censor conservative news stories had finally achieved its end goal. The months […]
Homeschooling: Fueling White Supremacy
The seventh most populous state of the union, Ohio, is so typical that it verges on the point of drab. But on the Buckeye State’s quiet streets teeming with suburban housing of seeming normalcy, there rests an underbelly of white supremacy. In the Winter of 2023, the Ohio Department of Education uncovered a bustling Neo-Nazi […]
Haiti’s Encroaching Dictatorship and the Forces Behind It
Initially set to be published in Spring 2021. On February 11th, a sea of protesters marched into the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Sharp chants of “down with the dictatorship” accompanied by the boom of rallying drum beats rang out through the crowds of thousands as police responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. Only a […]
Minority Voters Save Democrats. Now, Democrats Must Save Minority Voters.
Fish live in water, humans breathe air, and minorities vote for Democrats. Right? I am a person of color and have aligned myself with the values of the Democratic Party, so it must be natural in American politics that voters of color will consistently turn out to elect Democrats. This seems to be the view […]
Fund Schools First: What the Free College Education Movement is Forgetting
In 2019 President Biden released “Joe’s Plan for Higher Education,” detailing his intentions to help Americans access higher education easily. With almost two-thirds of Americans supporting free college tuition, Biden’s initiative attracts much intrigue and support from the majority of voters. However, his plan does not consider a vital issue in the movement—the quality of […]
The Next Antitrust Wave: Is Lina Khan the New Robert Bork?
In the last few years, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon have dominated the news, and at the same time have become increasingly involved in every aspect of our lives. Calls to break up and/or regulate these corporations have recently picked up momentum, specifically motivated by the 2020 House Judiciary Committee report concluding that “Big Tech” […]
How American Foreign Policy in Yemen Could Change under Biden
The Middle Eastern country of Yemen is home to both a civil war and a dramatic humanitarian crisis. A quarter-million people have died, many directly from the conflict, while others have died due to malnutrition, exposure, and diseases. Millions more are homeless and starving. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has publicly stated that Yemen is “now […]