Photo: Malcolm Lightbody I was the first in the house to be woken up in the middle of the night by a tornado siren. It was the night after my grandmother’s funeral in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and I had the unfortunate task of sleeping on the couch in the living room as all the bedsContinue reading “In the Wake of Kentucky’s Tornadoes, It’s Time to Take Climate Change Action”
Category Archives: World
The True Cost of a World Cup
Twenty-two players on the field, eleven on each side. The game plays for ninety minutes. Those ninety minutes will fly by. You blink, you might miss out on magic happening on the field. Every thunderous kick of the ball is packed with passion. Every step over, every flick of the ball is backed with aContinue reading “The True Cost of a World Cup”
#JeSuisCharlie: The Legacy of the Twitter Movement, 5 Years Later
On the morning of January 7, 2015, the editorial meeting of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was well underway in Paris when two masked gunmen armed with AK-47s forced their way into the publication’s offices and opened fire, leaving twelve dead. This would signify the beginning of a three-day siege of terrorist attacks on the FrenchContinue reading “#JeSuisCharlie: The Legacy of the Twitter Movement, 5 Years Later”
Free Palestine
Brutal depictions of violence in Palestine have shocked the entire world. Videos of Palestinians being arrested, beaten, expelled from their homes at gunpoint, tear gassed out of a mosque during Ramadan, and bombed have gone viral on the internet. For many, this is the first time the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is front and present in theirContinue reading “Free Palestine”
The Case for Supporting Israel
Imagine this: in rural Virginia, about fifty miles outside of Washington D.C., an internationally recognized terrorist group has seized an area the size of a large city. They have established a de facto military base in this area to execute attacks on the nation’s capital and surrounding locales, using the homes and workplaces of civiliansContinue reading “The Case for Supporting Israel”
Louisville Political Review 