I recently came across a couple of blog posts that were focused on Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur running for president in the Democratic party. Yang’s background is interesting, born of immigrant parents from Taiwan, with an educational background in economics and political science. He founded a national educational company that…

The above table is interesting because it defies many expectations, including my own. For the past 40 years, the city in the United States with the most public corruption has been Chicago, not Washington, DC (on a *sarcastic* sidenote, happy to see my homestown of Cleveland, Ohio crack the top…

“ The State of Israel represents the darkness of a state body, where a creature of a human form who was the president of the Supreme Court decides that the use of torture is permitted in the interest of the state.” The above quote, which uses provocative language and imagery…

When I published my recent piece on Kamala Harris and her support of Israel, my goal was to start a conversation that had been lacking within the dialogue taking place that was calling her record into question. I am happy that many people read the piece and that it started…

There really is no such thing as a lazy day in politics. When I was pursuing my undergraduate degree in International Relations, I had a professor who made this point clear every chance he could. He was the busiest person I ever saw, but somehow always made time to spend…

Kamala Harris is a cop, or so goes the saying from many of her critics who decry her history as a prosecutor in the state of California. Since her announced candidacy for president in 2020, Kamala Harris has unknowingly ignited a debate among the left regarding her record as prosecutor…

Heading into 2019, it has become clear that the political discourse in this country has reached a crossroads of sorts. With the ongoing government shutdown and continued talks of collusion between Trump and Russia, the level of fear from the public in response to this administration is at an all…

Since the beginning of the Trump presidency, one thing that has been more apparent than anything else is the unwillingness of the vast majority of Americans, media, and government figures to accept the possibility that anything good can come from this administration. One such example of this has been the…

More and more I think about what it means to be “anti-Imperialist”, and how that affects the way I think about the world, especially given the ever changing geopolitical dynamics of the world we live in. Imperialism as a definition has undergone quite a change throughout history, going from a…