This week is the Fourth of July, which celebrates the founding of the United States after the American Revolution. For those of us fortunate enough to have the day off, we might watch fireworks or spend time with family. Regardless of what we end up doing, our society...
For those of in the United States, we are told from a very young age that we live in a democracy. We are told that we live in a society where the “majority rules.” We likely were told this idea when we were in school and we are often reminded of this idea in movies,...
As Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people proceeds with extreme brutality, the Biden administration in the U.S. has lent Israel its unconditional support. The war has gone on for six months, leaving more than 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza dead, their...
On Saturday, April 20th, President Biden rushed to sign a two-year renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The renewal of the law made Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer note, “Democrats and Republicans came together and did the right thing for...
Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) made news last week by contributing, for the first time in her nearly five years in the House of Representatives, $260,000 to the campaign arm used by Democrats in the House of Representatives. For her first few years in...
