The “Big Lie” was on the Ballot in the 2022 Midterms In light of former President Donald Trump’s false claim that he lost the 2020 presidential election due to widespread voter fraud, election denialism became a rallying cry for Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections. Research from the Brookings Institution found that 345 Republican candidates embraced Trump’s assertion that the 2020 election was stolen and … Continue reading The Dual-Threat of Election Denialism and Domestic Extremism

Unless you’re a corn farmer or environmental activist, chances are you’ve never heard of atrazine. But you may have drank it, and maybe you’ve even heard Alex Jones talk about it – that it “turns frogs gay.” Atrazine is the second most commonly used herbicide in the United States. First registered in 1958, atrazine is used on the majority of corn croplands in the United … Continue reading Atrazine: Hermaphrodite Frogs, Water Contamination, and Maybe Cancer

Introduction  There are times in history when it is crucial to take a step back and attempt to view what’s happening not in the vacuum of the present–with all its shifting considerations and interests–but in the vast expanse of the future, knowing that the actions we take today will have consequences that reverberate far past our short time here. In America, and all over the … Continue reading The 2022 Midterm Elections: A Two-Year Lease on Democracy

In 1939, Nazi tanks stormed across the German border into Poland. In a matter of weeks, half of Poland was under German control. Promises from the French and British to come to Poland’s aid were never fulfilled. The United States, guided by isolationism, was worlds away from everything happening in Europe. Poland was left to its hopeless fate. It was left to charge newly developed … Continue reading Why The United States Needs to Continue Supporting the Ukrainian War Effort

A theory propagated since the inception of modern democracy, the basic income is a centuries-old political idea that has, since Andrew Yang’s popular stance in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary, only been disseminated further. A universal basic income (UBI) is generally considered a liberal or leftist belief, economically speaking. Liberal proponents like Robert Reich and Tulsi Gabbard have only reinforced this association, but the basic … Continue reading Progressives Support the Universal Basic Income, and Conservatives Should Too