Detention Centers Aren’t Daycares
It doesn’t matter if you’re 30 years old or 30 days old. To ICE, anyone can pose a threat to national security. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency confirmed a rise in the number of detained infants as an outcome of the overall...
Have you Heard of Herd Immunity?
In a society on the cutting edge of medical research and technology, the number and prevalence of diseases should be on the decline. Yet in 2019, diseases once considered eradicated are resurfacing.
Eco Consumerism Won’t Save Us
A motto of 21st century environmentalism is to live simply and make sustainable choices, but people must go to extraordinary lengths to live green. Everyday activities in the U.S. are almost impossible to complete without leaving a carbon footprint. When everything in the supermarket is...
The NFL Doesn’t Own Inglewood
Tech and entertainment giants are displacing low-income families all over California, and Inglewood is the latest city to face the potential death of its culture. Its executioner is the National Football League (NFL). In 2016, the Rams and the Chargers announced plans to build the...
Abolish ICE
When millions of law-abiding residents have to look over their shoulder for fear of being taken away from their families, we must question the organization instilling this terror. Predicated on protecting us, ICE does anything but.
Prescribing Prison
In America, one in five adults experience mental illness at least once in a given year. It is a much-researched phenomena in this country. Less-known is that the American penal system incarcerates over 2 million people with mental illnesses every year, according to the National...
Look Beyond the Viral Video
Search “Native American” on any news site and you’ll likely be greeted by controversy surrounding the Indigenous Peoples March. But focusing on one incident incites momentary outrage and obscures the systemic problems Native Americans face every day. A viral video overshadowed the Jan. 18 Indigenous...
Deportation in the Shadows
As America watches border patrol agents throw gas canisters and tear children from their parents at the nation’s southern border, the White House is quietly preparing to detain 7,000 Vietnamese residents and deport them across the Pacific Ocean. Donald Trump’s policies hurt immigrants and, for...
This Call May Be Recorded
When the police read your rights they tell you anything you say can and will be held against you. This doesn’t apply to confidential conversations with your lawyer, but police are acting like it does. It is a felony to record conversations protected by attorney-client...
Pipeline to Disaster
Stripping indigenous peoples of their lands is so frequent in history, it is almost routine. Today’s colonists are much the same as their 17th-century counterparts. All that has changed are the tactics they use to conquer. Battles once waged with weapons now come in the...