“Let’s not lose out on this opportunity to work both across the aisle and across the urban-rural divide to address hunger in North Carolina. The Corner Store Initiative bill should stall in committee no longer.”
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“Perhaps the current occupant of the White House will learn that not all Americans support our country going about business as usual with murderous, unstable autocrats.”
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“While Asian women earn only 74.8% of what Asian men earn, they surpass white women and almost match white men in terms of salary, averaging about 93% of the latter demographic’s earnings.”
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“Although few students monitor emails from the Chancellor’s Office, some will have noticed that the University has been hemorrhaging executive administrators and struggling to find new ones.”
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Mexico’s gas shortage worsens, the British Parliament’s Brexit woes continue, and the Canadian government moves to accept one million immigrants over the next three years.
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“Souza says he offers an alternative outlet of expression to the President’s own use social media. The photographer is hesitant, though, to label his posts — often simultaneously snarky yet tame juxtapositions of Obama and Trump’s approaches to the presidency — as political activism. He simply calls it, ‘telling it the truth.’”
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More than 50% of LGBT+ students of color reported being verbally harassed at school. Of these students, 15% had also been physically harassed or assaulted. Our efforts at curbing bullying, such as those made by the First Lady, completely overlook the inextricable connection between bullying and homophobia in the greater school environment.
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“The powers in charge of keeping our campus safe acted in the only way that could possibly be worse for our community than putting the monument back in its original location. A low bar to limbo, but under it they slid.”
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“Yoga’s rise in popularity is directly linked to colonialism, so much so that Indian yogis travel between England and the United States to ‘sell’ the discipline.”
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“The Democratic Party of 2018 is considerably more progressive on the whole than it was a decade ago. Record numbers of elected officials are calling for bold action on climate change, healthcare, immigration, and human rights.”
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“Unpopular as it often sounds, a substantial salary increase for those who represent us might be the only way to save the citizen legislature.”
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“For them, this case wasn’t about the brutal rape and murder of a young girl, but a casualty in an ongoing ideological war.”
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“What Henson and others fail to grasp, however, is neither the First Amendment nor our societal expectations of common courtesy should ever mandate “tolerance” for dispositions which are morally bankrupt.”
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The “yellow vest protests” in France continue into a third week, Mexico and Spain see changes in political leadership, and Qatar leaves OPEC.
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“Republicans aren’t afraid of voter fraud — they’re afraid of what might happen if the Democratic Party finally prioritizes protecting the voting rights of minorities and working class Americans.”
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“The Chinese government has proved it will do whatever it takes to achieve global economic prowess, even if it means forcibly detaining entire minority populations to quell any possibility of internal resistance.”
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“As the Trump administration closes in on two years, it is clear that progress is being made on the congressional side of affairs regarding conservation.”
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“Profit has replaced patriotism as mercenaries return to the forefront of warfare, with dire implications for global stability.”
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“On Nov. 16, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos proposed a set of regulations aimed to improve how universities handle cases of sexual violence. The proposal includes a ‘fair grievance process’ that has received backlash for potentially ‘bolstering the rights of the accused.’”
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“These results represent undeniable victories for LGBTQ+ communities around the nation — and many more are not so easily captured in simple numbers or statistics.”
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