Background At the time of writing this article, the COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 550,000 people in the United States. The pandemic has exposed this society’s flawed and under-resourced public health system. It has also demonstrated the complete inability of...
For many people, it seems easy to blame Donald Trump for the cruelties of U.S. immigration and border policies. But recent months have shown that the Democratic Party under President Biden is unwilling and unable to fundamentally change the inhumane practices that...
In early April 1968, fifty-three years ago this month, Martin Luther King, Jr. was in Memphis to support the sanitation workers’ strike. The workers – almost all of them African American – had been on strike since February 12, demanding higher wages, safer working...
A humanitarian catastrophe has been growing over the past several years in Yemen. It is arguably the world’s worst humanitarian crisis at this time. Millions of people are at risk of famine according to the United Nations. Roughly 2 out of 3 people are struggling to...
In the one year between March 16, 2020, and March 16, 2021, there were recorded no mass shootings (defined as a shooting that kills at least four victims in a single setting) in the United States. However, the overall murder rate in the United States in 2020 rose by...
