Daunte Wright was just a year older than me. He was a father, a recent graduate, a basketball fan, and most of all, beloved by…
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Manilatown was supposed to be an asylum for Filipino men immigrating into San Francisco in the ‘20s and ‘30s. It wasn’t formed by resident choice,…
Only three years ago, mass shootings seemed to make national headlines nearly once a month. Gun control was at the center of the American political…
Marcus was only 16 years old when he realized something was wrong. He’d sit in class unable to pay attention, twiddling his thumbs, shaking his…
Back in the 60s, the pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle helped to develop the first hormonal contraceptive, Enovid, amidst a climate of scientific hesitance. While the…
There are no more children with Down Syndrome in Iceland. At least, almost none. Depending on where you are in the world, and when in…
Frederich Hayek famously said “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can…
“They never told us uranium was dangerous. We washed our faces in it. We drank in it. We ate in it. It was sweet,” explained…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called it, “Biden’s mark of the beast” and a form of “corporate communism.” Weeks later, Rep. Madison Cawthorn compared it to…
In the wake of the most severe recession since the 2008 financial crisis, even historically low interest rates and Biden’s unprecedented government expenditures might not…
Catholic Social Services has been providing foster care in Philadelphia for more than 200 years. Referred to as CSS, the agency claims to support…
For eight years, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has introduced the same bill in the Senate: the Military Justice Improvement Act (MJIA). Despite the…
On March 2, as congressmembers considered the For the People Act, a bill that would enact the most comprehensive expansion of voting sights in the…
March 2021 was an eventful month for abortion in the news. On March 3, The New York Times published an opinion article outlining the political…
Traditionally, medical institutions and systems are portrayed as places of cures and remedies, but what if they are actually major sources of health issues, woven…
Launch yourself back into your first grade class and imagine this: Your teacher asks the class, “What’s four plus four?” Simple enough, you raise your…
This last year has resurfaced issues leading to greater action towards change and exposed new crises that have left Americans feeling fearful of change. The…
Since the 1960s, Asian Americans have been upheld as the ideal immigrant. As one 1986 CNN article put it, “they are smarter and better educated…