By Homer Gee Greene Jr. The United States has exited the long 20-year war with Afghanistan and the Taliban. Over these 20 years, the United States has trained and equipped the Afghan national [...] Continue Reading
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Pandemic Continues to Take Major Toll Despite Effective Vaccines
By Sunita Sohrabji The Covid-19 pandemic is continuing to take a major toll, despite the availability of proven mitigation measures and effective vaccines, said four subject matter experts from the [...] Continue Reading
Robert E. Lee Statue: Art or Propaganda?
By Malik Simba In an ironic twist, on Sept. 8, 2021, a Black construction company dismantled the enormous statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., the capital of the Old [...] Continue Reading
Transparency Needed at City Hall
By Kevin Hall City leaders and staff are in meetings with some West Fresno residents to discuss the 92.5 acres proposed to be rezoned for industrial use along Elm Avenue, and news of the private [...] Continue Reading
Parole Punishes Everyone
By Jaime Leyva and Morghan Vélez Young Exploring the punishment of parole in the United States allows us to identify the ways that the design of parole serves as an arm of the cultural fixation [...] Continue Reading
U.S. Government Kidnaps Venezuelan Diplomat in Third Country
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Who is Alex Saab? Alex Saab is a Venezuelan diplomat who was en route from Caracas to Tehran on June 12, 2020, when his plane was diverted to Cabo Verde, a small island [...] Continue Reading
Local High Schoolers Publish an Economics Book
I have always been an avid believer in SIY, or the “Start it Yourself” mentality. This, I believe, derives from my unbounded passion to incite change, namely, on those issues that plague our [...] Continue Reading
Troubling Contradictions
By Ruth Gadebusch Try as I might, I simply can’t understand so many of the right wing’s inconsistent stands. Calling themselves pro life, nowhere is contradiction more true than in their [...] Continue Reading
