The political conversation today is rife with debate surrounding immigration. Whether legal or illegal, many immigrants threatened by the actions of the Trump administration have lived and worked in the United States for decades and have built families and careers here. While there is a burgeoning “Here to Stay” movement fighting for immigrants’ right to … Read more
Democrats will likely find themselves riding a blue wave to victory come November. According to survey data released by the Harvard Public Opinion Project on Monday, young Americans (ages 18-29) are becoming disenchanted by President Trump and the Republican-led Congress, and favorable of Democratic leadership in 2018. The HPOP report states that over 80 … Read more
Millennials are highly critical of structural flaws in government, media, and society at large, finds the Harvard Public Opinion Project’s spring 2018 youth poll. By contrast, they are skeptical that foreigners, immigrants, or the wealthy are to blame for America’s greatest problems. The poll surveyed 2,631 young people, aged 18 to 29, on a wide … Read more
When President Trump decided to run for political office in 2015, his campaign took a hardline stance against illegal immigration. His aggressive rhetoric has appealed to the nation’s fear that immigrants steal jobs, abuse welfare, and reshape national identity. Because of these fears, unregulated immigration has become the center of the national conversation. According … Read more
What do you do when you discover a new ocean? The Arctic Ocean may not be a secret today, but climate change is quickly turning it into a new frontier. Before, ice was a huge barrier to exploration, development, and shipping. Now, with climate change warming the Arctic two times faster than anywhere else on … Read more
Over 10,000 civilians are dead, and 17 million more are in crisis or emergency food situations in Yemen, according to the World Food Program. The banking system has fallen apart, the nominal government remains powerless, and the World Health Organization estimates that 14.8 million people lack access to basic health care. The Yemeni Civil War … Read more
Thursday, February 8, 2018, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) rose from his seat to speak against his own party’s budget bill. “The reason I’m here tonight,” he began, “is to put people on the spot … I want them to have to answer to people at home, [if] you were against President Obama’s deficits, how come … Read more
More than halfway through his four-year term, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has now been sued by Attorney General Andy Beshear four times. Beshear is challenging Gov. Bevin’s increasingly routine attempts to capture power from the Kentucky state legislature, and thus far, the courts have ruled with Beshear—leaving Bevin down for the count. Bevin has attacked … Read more
On his first day in El Campamento, photographer Dominick Reuter did not take a single picture. He had entered what many consider the epicenter of the opioid epidemic in Philadelphia: a half-a-mile stretch along Gurney Street that splits Philadelphia’s poorest neighbourhood, Fairhill, from West Kensington. Kensington, often used to reference the general vicinity, has a … Read more
There is a tendency to think Democrats are simply divided between centrists and progressives, but such thinking misses the mark. On election night 2016, one commentator explained Trump’s win, remarking, “He’s spiked the white vote… in a way that [makes] a lot of people uncomfortable but does awaken something basically that’s racial anxiety among whites… … Read more