Our discourse on drug policy and addiction is often relegated to hyperbolized images of wayward teens, often racialized and targeted pictures of poor communities of…
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In 2015, the US signed on to the Paris Agreement, vowing to work towards a goal of reducing global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius,…
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…
When we think of real estate, we think of homes, skyscrapers, and other buildings. These physical spaces, while a large part of real estate, are…
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…
“This bill is being pushed through at the same time that the people across the United States are demanding the abolition of the prison industrial…
The Democratic Party’s cry to battle these days seems to be Medicare for All. What was once deemed an extreme and far-left-of-mainstream idea from Bernie…
Kevin Ramatsi, an 11th grader from South Africa, says corruption takes children away from schooling. “Gangsterism, violence and bullying is prevalent in schools. Kids are…
The Crisis Today, it seems that the wasteland of the free market has reached a fevered pitch of self-parody. Insulin prices jump to the thousands…
It’s a running joke across many college campuses that economics is the “dismal science”. For those who are not economists, it can be hard to…
It is likely you have been paying social security taxes for a large portion of your life. It is also likely you haven’t received any…
Violence In Western China The capital of the Chinese province of Xinjiang, Urumqi, looks like many Chinese cities. The horizon is full of construction machinery creating…
In a Business Insider political piece, “Here’s why Catalonia should secede from Spain, and why it won’t” former Catalan MP Alfons López Tena argues in…
By Alexander Casendino On Feb. 26th, 2015, Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, a climate change skeptic, decided to put an end to the global warming…
National pride has historically been founded on biases and ignorance of a country’s flawed history. But of course, it is also founded on some merit.…
On October 13, one news headline stood out among the rest: “Trump says he spoke to U.S. Virgin Islands’ ‘president’ — which is him.” “Must’ve…
Last month, around the Jandiatuba river in the Amazonas region of Western Brazil, a small cohort of illegal gold miners happened upon a group of…
Hugo Chávez clapping in front of a portrait of Simón Bolívar Not long ago, Venezuela sought to brand itself as a leader, a resurgent power…