Here are three scenarios of how the November election is likely to shake out, ordered from the most optimistic, in my view, to the least optimistic. 1. Clean Biden win November 10th, 2020: Exactly one week after election day, all ballots have been counted and the results have been formally…

The following are, in my opinion, the top five highlights of the Trump presidency: Response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including ignoring its existence in the early months for fear that responding would harm his re-election chances and turning mask wearing into a culture war issue Separation of families seeking asylum…

The Paycheck Protection Program was a prudent measure to help protect American jobs, businesses, and workers. I was happy that it passed, and that it did so with bipartisan support. What disturbed me were the repeated stories of entities not needing the money, yet applying for and often receiving it…

I spend too much time on Facebook. You probably do too. A five minute newsfeed-scrolling phone break at work turns into fifteen. Facebook is the first website visited when the laptop turns on, intended to be a cursory glance at the activities of friends, family, acquaintances, and the latest news…

As of September, 2017, some 44 million Americans, nearly 14% of the population, cumulatively owe over one trillion dollars in student loan debt. Only mortgage debt is larger among types of consumer debt. Millennials and younger people hold disproportionate levels of debt, with 17 million Americans under the age of…

On September 25th, 2017 millions of Iraqi Kurds went to the polls to vote on whether or not Kurdistan should become an independant nation. Enthusiasm among the mostly Kurdish people of the autonomous region in Northern Iraq is high, more than three in four elligible voters casting ballots an hour…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced earlier this month the phasing out of DACA, the 2012 executive order allowing undocumented people brought to the United States as children to apply for work permits every two years in exchange for a fee. Sessions’s rationale for removal is predicated on three grounds: constitutional…

Today, President Trump tweeted that he would not attend the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, breaking with tradition for the first time in decades. Yesterday, he banned several news outlets from a press briefing, including such reputable publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the BBC. Breitbart News…