Do you remember last year’s reports of undecided voters who vowed not to cast ballots in the 2016 presidential election because they just couldn’t
A Skewed View of Washington, DC from the Heartland
I recently had two experiences which crystallized why I think that so many Americans, particularly younger ones, do not understand the importance of the
Are we in the midst of a progressive awakening?
Are we in the midst of a progressive awakening? Are the marches, rallies, and town-hall meetings the beginnings of a committed and long-term movement?
Erdogan Makes A Mockery Of “Justice And Development”
The longest running joke on the leftist humor podcast Chapo Trap House is that its hosts are fervent devotees of Turkish president Recep Tayyip
“A Message to Trump from Climate Scientists”
At the annual gathering of The American Geophysical Union in fall of 2016, more than twenty-three thousand earth and space scientists from around the
Put trigger warnings in their proper place: on actual triggers
I’m sure that the college students and mental health professionals who have been leading the effort to impose trigger warnings on textbooks and reading
Seeing the faces and knowing the lives of gun violence victims
One hundred thirty-two Missourians lost their lives, and 164 have been injured during the first 3 months of 2017 due to gun violence. Nine
Net Neutrality: Round Two
It looks like Trump-appointee Ajit Pai over at the FCC is setting his sights on unraveling regulations that guarantee net neutrality. This radical change
Sean Spicer: Holocaust denier?
Where did Sean Spicer’s incredibly ignorant and offensive remark about Adolf Hitler “not using chemical weapons on his own people” come from? I watched
Tension mounts with Islamophobic speaker scheduled at Truman State
When I woke up this morning, I was outraged to discover that $3,050 in Truman State University funds (taken from the non-optional “student activity