Guest post by: Matthew Oakley In the midst of a tumultuous election—one that shook the nation, and challenged many preconceived notions about our democracy—there was a portion of the population that had no real voice. The current sociological climate strives to suppress any discrimination whatsoever—and rightly so—but turns a blind eye when talking about a certain subset of...
Guest post by: Matthew Oakley Little can be said about Michael Wolff’s book, Fire & Fury: Inside the Trump White House, that hasn’t already been on the pages of numerous periodicals and websites. It is, at its core, a hack job by a writer better equipped to cover the Kardashians than the White House. Aside from this however,...
The following is a guest post by Lindsay Marchello. Last month, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the federal government will cease enforcement of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy within six months. However, for most immigrants eligible for the program — better known as “DREAMers” — this Thursday is the real deadline to...
It has been twenty years since the inception of mobile phones that were capable of accessing the vast world of the internet, and around that same time the first social media websites began to spring up all over the place--beginning to grow and burn like wildfire. The early collision of these industries was a positive change to most...
The political spectrum has been alive with candidates spewing mottos since the dawn of time. They range from the utterly bland (“Grant Us Another Term”, Ulysses S. Grant, 1872), to the patently absurd (“I’m tanned, rested, and ready for this fight.” Bobby Jindal, 2015). While few of them possess any real creativity or integrity, the longer the American...
While it takes a certain degree of narcissism to entrench oneself in politics to any degree, there are those whose minds are hardwired to work on a more tangled level. They are the ones that are born with the perfect storm of soul that many would fear if they looked deep enough. So it's good, in that regard,...
