In the late 1800s, the land of opportunity entered an era known as the Gilded Age, a time of economic corruption at the hands of powerful businessmen and technological innovators often dubbed “Robber Barons.”These massively wealthy individuals garnered their nicknames through ethically questionable monopolies and poor employee treatment, further dividing the classes at the time.As […]
Category: Opinion
The Country is in the Courts’ Hands
The United States Court system consists of 94 U.S. District Courts, 13 Appellate Courts, and one Supreme Court. These courts are made up of 865 judges and justices. These judges are the highest authorities on the law in our nation and many of them will preside over cases against Trump and his administration’s unprecedented overreach.The […]
An Act to Protect Americans or to Strip Them of an Impactful Platform?
With the possibility of a TikTok ban on the table, opinions on whether it poses a threat to national security or violates Americans’ freedom of speech are at an all-time high. In disregard to these opinions, it is evident a ban would cause more harm than protection.One of the main reasons TikTok is at risk […]
TikTok’s Security Policies Pose Major National Security Concerns
Over the week of Jan. 18, The American public, the owners of TikTok, and the Supreme Court underwent a rollercoaster of drama, distress, and distrust over the recent banning, then unbanning of powerhouse social media app, TikTok.The idea of banning the app came in August 2020 when Donald Trump signed an executive order to have […]
American Carnage
Trump First Terms Was Chaos – This Time He’ll Have No Guardrails On Jan. 20, 2017, then President Trump stood before the nation to deliver his Inauguration Address. In this speech, Trump vowed to end the “American carnage” that he claimed had plagued the nation under his predecessors. Trump brought a new plan to the […]
We Can’t Read and It’s Our Teachers’ Fault
We may not think about it, but we read all the time. From text messages on our phones to signs on the street.When we read texts, we think about them for a moment and then form thoughts based on what we read. That skill is called reading comprehension.Reading comprehension is the ability to process and […]
900-page “Anti-Woke” Book Aims to Inhibit Societal Progress
Project 2025 is a blueprint for the conservative restructuring of government agencies and executive orders written in the 900-page book, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, funded by the Heritage Foundation.It has an advisory board of at least 110 organizations, including Liberty University, a Virginia institution. In the 1981 version, former President Ronald Reagan passed […]
Is College Overrated?
As high school seniors prepare for the next chapter in their lives, many feel the overwhelming pressure to attend college, seeing it as the only pathway to success. But with rising costs, shifting job market demands, and evolving technology, is college still the golden ticket it’s made out to be? Perhaps not. In fact, many […]
Marcellus Williams Execution Poses Major Questions of Death Penalty Ethics
On September 24, Marcellus Williams was executed by the state of Missouri for his alleged role in the 1998 murder of news reporter Felisha Gayle; In the weeks leading up to his execution, a plethora of prominent voices spoke out against the planned killing, claiming it to be an act of murder against yet another […]
Choosing Guns Over American Safety is Unpatriotic
In the aftermath of the horrific September 4 Apalachee High School shooting, Republican Vice-President nominee JD Vance called school shootings “A fact of life.” claiming gun restrictions would not decrease gun violence. The comment raises a torch to the broader problem of selective ignorance regarding the epidemic of gun violence in the U.S. and the […]