Mediterranean Refugee Crisis Pressures Countries To Take Larger Steps
Refugee Crisis by the Numbers 137,00 — the number of refugees the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates have travelled across the […]
Category: POLITICS
Drumpf Actually an Illegal Alien
Real estate mogul Donald Trump threw a tantrum last week after it was discovered he is actually an immigrant. When President Barack Obama demanded Trump […]
Gay Rights Compromised in New Indiana Legislation
In a recent landmark legislation signed by Indiana Governor Mike Pence, businesses and individuals in Indiana now have the right to deny service to gay people. […]
Pope Francis: Evolution Can Coexist With Words from the Bible
Pope Francis, continuing with his trend of pushing boundaries in the Catholic community, announced in October 2014 to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences that he […]
Update: The Fight Agains Ebola Goes On
As of February 2, 2015, there are 22,334 cases of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. There are 13,773 laboratory-confirmed cases and 8,921 deaths. […]
SF Youth Commission Proposes Voting Age Be 16
In March 1971, Congress passed the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. In January 2015, fifteen youth on the San Francisco […]
Colorado Springs Chapter NAACP Bombing Still Unsolved
A bomb went off outside the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP (NationalAssociation for the Advancement of Colored People) in mid-January. Nobody was harmed by the […]
County in West Virginia Falls in Love with Young Politician
It seems that politicians are getting younger and younger every day—at least, that’s the case in West Virginia (and an episode of Parks and Recreation). […]
Assisted Suicide: Liberty or Crime?
The debate over assisted suicide has been re-sparked by terminally ill brain cancer patient Brittany Maynard, who died by prescribed lethal overdose. Maynard was given […]
Lick Voters: Choose to Exercise Your Rights
The vitriolic campaigns between Republicans and Democrats (and some Independents) had gone on for months. November 4, 2014 was election day, the final day of […]
