Gavin Newsom, the Democrat Governor of California, has passed the state’s largest reproductive freedom bills and enshrined protections for LGBTQ+ youth in school. Charlie Kirk is a conservative influencer who is staunchly against LGBTQ+ rights and the separation of church and state. The two sat down in early March on Newsom’s podcast, “This Is Gavin […]
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Flight to the Right: How Democrats Lost San Francisco Asian Americans
In a historically progressive city, San Francisco’s Asian American community showed up and showed out in support of right-wing candidates and policies down the ballot in the 2024 election. While Trump’s share of Black and Latino voters hardly shifted, Trump captured Asian Americans in tension with the Democratic Party. After President Donald Trump’s onslaught of […]
For someone who possibly had one of the easiest paths to the presidency set up for him, Ron DeSantis is doing all the things he needed to do right, wrong.
Traditional conservative voters wanted to be excited about Ron DeSantis. Independents and fed-up Democrats wanted him to be tolerable. His recent tack to the hard right is pushing these crucial voters away. With about half the country identifying as Independent voters, the path to victory for any major candidate in a general election must involve […]
The California Exodus Myth
The California Exodus Myth If you have lived in California for very long, you have heard the myth. By all accounts, high income and corporate tax rates are causing an economic downturn that is prompting folks to flee California for conservative paradises like Texas and Florida. It’s obvious, right? Liberals are destroying businesses with regulations […]
As COVID-19 Rages On, So Does the GOP’s Attack on Trans Rights
During the early months of 2021, a notable amount of anti-transgender bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the country — as of mid-March, bills targeting the transgender community have been proposed in at least 20 states. Although most of these bills have not been voted into law yet, their introductions alone represent an […]
Free Money for Everyone: The Future Policy of the Political Right?
“We are approaching a time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task…society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: if machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?,” asked Moshe Vardi, expert and professor of computer science at Rice University. […]
Red Threatens the Rainbow: the Legalization of Gay Conversion in Brazil
Vibrant flags shot through with glitter, bass-pumped music echoing through the street, flamboyant outfits, public displays of affection, lots of smiles – these are all things ubiquitous at Pride Parades all over the world. Nowhere is the Pride party bigger or better than in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which holds the record for hosting the largest […]
Protecting the Perverts
This article is part of a series examining the anti-Milo Yiannopoulos protests and their aftermath — a campus event that has since pierced and provoked people nationwide — from various different perspectives. Several of these pieces include first person testimonies and narratives that illuminate facts of the protests not necessarily highlighted in mainstream media coverage. […]
Eric Cantor or Eric “Can’t Win”?
It didn’t matter that David Brat was an unknown economics professor. It wasn’t enough that Eric Cantor had spent nearly $5.4 million on his campaign. And it certainly made no difference that Cantor branded himself as a preacher of the Republican Creed. On the evening of July 10, 2014, Eric Cantor made congressional history, becoming […]