My first political memory was watching on television footage of the beating of Rodney King by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department. I did not fully comprehend what I was watching at that young age of five years old, though I sensed that it was unjust. Nearly three decades…

In working to subvert Medicaid expansion, the GOP-controlled legislature is also ignoring their constituents’ wishes — During the 2018 midterms, the citizens of Idaho voted by a margin of 61 percent to 39 percent to approve Proposition 2, an initiative to expand Medicaid to approximately 91,000 low-income residents. The vote seemed like a victory not just for health care reform, but also for direct democracy (a…

My earliest political memory was November 3, 1992, watching my mom watch the election returns. This was followed soon by my rushing around my elementary school “informing” every teacher and student I saw that Bill Clinton had won the presidency the night before. The reaction was, in hindsight, predictable. The…

Heartbreaking. Infuriating. Degrading. Surreal. Galling. Shaming. Powerless. Those aren’t the words I’m using to describe the rapes that I experienced while a graduate student at Columbia University. …

​On July 8, 1974, the case of United States v. Nixon was argued before the United States Supreme Court. Despite the Court’s formal term having ended, it was faced with executive privilege claims filed by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon. On July 24, 1974, the Supreme…

On July 9, 2018, the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, President Trump announced his nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, filling the vacancy left by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who had been the swing vote on the Supreme Court. This leaves Supreme Court nominee Brett…

​While the National Rifle Association claims that gun control is an infringement on their Second Amendment rights, they demonstrate little understanding of constitutional law in reaching their conclusions. Indeed, the NRA has virtually rewritten the Second Amendment to the point of declaring gun rights unfettered, leading former Chief Justice Warren…

With the Governor of Mississippi set to sign the nation’s strictest abortion ban, it is yet again clear that Republicans are motivated not by a concern for women, health, or life. They are simply clinging to patriarchy and hostility to Roe v. Wade in a time of historic women’s mobilization. …

After Jimmy Kimmel’s touching monologue about the heart problems and surgeries that his newborn son underwent, and the need for more to get the care that his son did, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) told Kimmel in May that he believed that Republicans’ Obamacare replacement legislation should not deny care to…