National Issues

An Examination Of Cell Phone Bans & What’s Happening To LGBTQ+ Rights These Days

In an age where the internet plays a pivotal role in our daily lives, ubiqitously integrated in our schools, jobs, and personal life, it’s no secret that the internet and smart devices are this current generation’s main source of socialization and entertainment (it was a bit like that during the last generation). While the public has mixed […]

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The (Ignored) National Security Threats Posed by Climate Crisis

We know the threats climate crisis pose to our planet, our lives and the far-reaching consequences in terms of destructive impacts on everything from our infrastructure, public health and food security. But what’s missed in much of the public conversation on climate crisis is how it has already brewed into a major national and international

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Exploring The Impacts Of Tariffs … Especially In The Case Of Mexico & Canada

A full scale global trade war appears to be in full effect. The 10 percent across-the-board tariffs that President Trump has imposed on countries feeding imports into the United States has roiled policymakers, world leaders and markets. At first, it was the 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum exports on Mexico and Canada,

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The Correlation Between a Surging Pandemic and The Infodemic

As more online misinformation spreads, we’ll continue to see low rates of vaccination from high levels of vaccine hesitancy. Despite the wide availability of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, along with ambitious public education campaigns, just 49.1 percent of the U.S population is vaccinated, according to the most recent data at the Washington Post . Among states, the

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