Will the Repeal of Net Neutrality Hurt or Help Consumers? Depends on Who You Ask
The FCC repealed net neutrality, leaving consumers with endless questions. | Alex Wong/Getty Images When net neutrality was repealed on December 14, 2017, internet consumers and the U.S. citizens at...
View ArticleLiterally Anybody Else: Who Should Have Responded to the State of the Union
After President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address, Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III gave the rebuttal speech. The third-term Congressman comes from one of America’s foremost political...
View ArticleDoes Trump Actually Control Which Words Scientists Use?
Did Donald Trump really suggest the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention avoid words like “fetus” and “vulnerable?” On Dec. 18, The Washington Post published a report asserting that the Trump...
View ArticleThese 15 States Have the Most People on Food Stamps
The USDA Food and Nutrition Service reports there were around 44.2 million individual food stamps recipients receiving an average benefit of $125.79 each in 2017. It’s an alarmingly high chunk of our...
View ArticleWhat It Means for the U.S. to Quit the UN Human Rights Council
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley | Drew Angerer/Getty Images After months of threatening to remove the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council, Nikki Haley, U.S....
View ArticleMistakes That Prove President Donald Trump Doesn’t Know Basic U.S. History
According to him, Donald Trump is a genius. So, it’s quite puzzling he doesn’t seem to have a grasp of U.S. history. Perhaps he’s just under a lot of stress and his memory fails him from time to time....
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About the Death Penalty in the U.S. in 2018,...
Hand of a prisoner | Manuel-F-O/iStock/Getty Images Recently, The New York Times notes Pope Francis said the death penalty was “an attack” on the “dignity of the person” — and it’s definitely...
View ArticleWhy Did Abortion Come Up in Moore Allegations?
In the Republican stronghold of Alabama, issues like the military, LGBT rights, and abortion hold high importance. Several women have accused Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct. Some of...
View ArticleHere’s How Trump’s Racist Pocahontas Comments Hurt Us All
President Donald Trump puts his foot in his mouth more often than his well-done hamburgers. This time though, he really did it. According to CNN, Trump threw “Pocahontas” racial slurs around during an...
View ArticleSurprising Things You Never Knew About the House of Representatives
We know it’s the lower house of Congress and that it helps make laws, but, for many of us, that might be the extent of what we know about the House of Representatives. It’s a shame, really. The Senate...
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