We have elected a person who is incompetent to perform the duties of the presidency. It is not a matter of partisan politics to observe that Hillary Clinton was probably the most qualified person [...] Continue Reading
Opinion & Analysis
#IVoteBecause or #IDoNotVoteBecause
We asked you on our social media pages to tell us why you do or do not vote in national, state, and local elections. We asked if you do not vote to tell us what, if anything, would get you to do [...] Continue Reading
OPINION: Our Elections are a Mess and Only Leftists Care Enough to Fix Them
By Emily Cameron The vehement insistence that Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary fair-and-square is unhealthy for democracy, and the narrative that Bernie Sanders supporters critiquing [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – November 2016
By Hannah Brandt (Trigger Warning for sexual assault and pregnancy loss) It makes you bite your nails. Or tap your foot. Run your fingers through your hair until you pull it out. A lot of times you [...] Continue Reading
SATIRE: Alex Jones Eat Your Heart Out, The Real Truth Behind Hillary Clinton
By Jacob Clark (Author’s Note: This Is Satire) We all know that this election is unlike any other before it. What we have now is not a normal election between two candidates but a battle between good [...] Continue Reading
Beyond the Presidential Election
By Ruth Gadebusch It is the presidential election grabbing most of the spotlight this fall; however, there are a number of other matters that we ignore at our peril. There are state legislative and [...] Continue Reading
D.C.
The past four weeks have been exhilarating and terrifying all at the same time. Let me explain. When I was a little girl, every Election Day, my mom would take me with her to our neighborhood polling [...] Continue Reading
Trumpism is Not Fascism, But it is Equally Terrifying
By Jacob Clark Throughout Trump’s unexpected ascension to the Republican presidential candidacy, he has been repeatedly called a fascist and equated to Hitler by those who rightly criticize him. As is [...] Continue Reading
Machiavellian Politicians
By Jonathan Luevanos The political philosophy of liberalism was introduced in the Western world through rational ideas of freedom and equality. Liberals believe that individuals are endowed with [...] Continue Reading
My Take On the Election
By Mike Starry My take on election campaigning so far reminds me my government's attempts to kill me and my friends by inventing a war in Vietnam, a country now receiving our arms. Researching their [...] Continue Reading
Rankings
One girl’s journey through conscious living. By Tiffany A. Potter I began my column over a year and a half ago with a promise to myself that I would not hold back or shy away from being as [...] Continue Reading
USE THAT VOTE
By Ruth Gadebusch As a long-time advocate for civic education I deplore what these days seems to be disintegrating into government by demonstration. At the same time, I appreciate that all too often [...] Continue Reading