Throughout my life, it has never made sense to me that 1% of the population is allowed to have extreme wealth while 40% of Americans are one emergency away from poverty. It’s even worse on a global scale, with just 8 men having as much wealth as 3.6 billion people. …

The right to self-determination is enshrined within the United Nations Charter and is the basis for forming new internationally-recognized countries today, but if you ask the Catalans, Kurds, or Sahrawis, realizing that right is much harder in practice than in theory. Sadly, as the Sahrawi people recently discovered in their…

COVID-19 is ravaging American society. While over 300,000 people have died from the virus, with an additional 9/11 death toll added almost everyday now, millions more have lost their healthcare and are at-risk of homelessness. It’s a human rights nightmare of epic proportions. You would think with this as the…

In a country where you choose between dozens of different brands of toilet paper and toothpaste, how does it make any sense to only have two choices of political party? It is a fundamentally undemocratic contradiction from a country that portrays itself as “the greatest country in the history of…

At some point in our lives, most of us have heard a variation of the phrase “I’m not racist, in fact I think we need to be colorblind when it comes to race!” On the surface-level, this sounds innocent. After all, some will say, “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said…

As a global pandemic pounces on America’s unprepared healthcare system, people are waking up to a harsh reality: cost is a barrier to medical care in this country and everyone is less safe because of it. One proposed solution, while admittedly a step in the right direction, reveals a fundamental…

Like many people my age, my passion for the environment began as a child admiring the Crocodile Hunter. His enthusiasm about protecting wildlife was infectious, inspiring me to check out numerous library books about animals every week. While Irwin planted the seed in my head, it wasn’t until high school…

Empire strikes like a shot in the dark, The citizens hardly stir. At home, that is. It's victims run at first sign of a spark. Mothers, daughters, brothers and fathers, Get caught in the carnage before anyone bothers. Climate change, stock exchange, domestic problems abound, Yet the violence abroad makes barely a sound. Good people go about their day-to-day lives, Not realizing the pain their action derives. We think we’re helping, the world police, Do we not see the suffering we’ve unleashed?

There were two progressive frontrunners on stage for night one of the Democratic Party’s second primary debates in Detroit. …