Politics

How To Reform The Senate

At the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, the American revolutionary generation came together to revise the Articles of Confederation and ultimately, write a new constitution. Caught between the New Jersey plan, which gave each state one vote, and the population-weighted Virginia plan…

How To Fix The Housing Crisis

There is a housing crisis in America’s cities.

Christians For Trump

On Saturday, President Trump delivered the commencement address for Liberty University, the fundamentalist Baptist school founded by Jerry Falwell in 1971, to rapturous applause.

It would seem ridiculous, to an outside observer, to see millions of Christians so…

Destroy Property

In 1880, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad established the Baltimore and Ohio Employees’ Relief Association. It provided coverage for illness, on-the-job accidents and death. In 1884, the B&O offered a pension paying up to 35 percent of pay to workers 65 and older with at least 10 years of service.

The Means of Production

Below is the text of a presentation I gave as part of a “teach-in” event hosted by the Penn State chapter of Young Democratic Socialists.

Human beings need things to live. We need shelter to keep us dry, clothes to keep us warm, food that we can turn into…

No More Clintons

If you’ve been paying attention to some of the liberal-leaning political sites lately, you may have noticed an uptick in coverage of Chelsea Clinton. The one-time first daughter has been garnering an impressive amount of press for a former President’s child who’s not, say, George W. or Jeb Bush.

Neoliberal Capitalism Will Never Center You

The most popular social movements of the Democratic Party in the 21st century have been those that center the oppressed: Gay rights, trans inclusion, Black Lives Matter, the pro-choice movement, and in a sense, the 2008 Obama campaign have all been built…

Death to “America”

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the President of the United States banned Syrian refugees from entering the country. Thus continued the long hypocrisy of American anti-immigrant sentiment.

In an executive order insultingly titled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign…

An Overly-Detailed Analysis of the Video Where Nazi Richard Spencer Gets Punched In The Face

Friday was a dark day for the millions of Americans. Donald Trump, a megalomaniacal con man, was sworn in as the President of the United States, and almost immediately…

They Will Take It All

It was reported on Tuesday that congressional Republicans have set their sights on rolling back the Endangered Species Act, because of course they have.