Law and democratic politics cannot be taken for granted. Read how we can preserve, maintain, and improve the system. Also highlighted are the threats aimed at cheating or dismantling it.
All presidents should be poets. When Senegal elected its first president in September 1960, it did not select a military dictator or communist revolutionary. Following centuries of European rule, Senegal elected a poet. Léopold Sédar Senghor became Senegal’s first president after he successfully convinced President Charles de Gaulle of France Read more…
We have all heard the stories of the first Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims, Native Americans, Plymouth Rock, the Mayflower – these are stories that have been passed down for generations in America. Many have questioned their validity, inquiring whether a peaceful gathering actually occurred on this day in 1621, filled with Read more…
The American media loves to report on Presidential elections. From e-mail scandals to birth certificates, West Point admissions to unfathomable hairstyles, the American media will stop at nothing to run another sound bite or story on Presidential elections, even when primary season is in its infancy. Senate, congressional, and gubernatorial Read more…
The rain came down in droves. I took a right from 38th street onto Park Avenue, one of the most spectacular streets I have ever seen in my life. Grander in my opinion than many other famous stretches of road, including France’s beloved Champs-Elysees. The old Pan Am building, currently known Read more…
There is an easy short and long term cure to climate change: a global carbon tax. Before you gasp at the thought of making businesses pay for the metric tons of carbon (and carbon equivalent emissions like CH4) they emit, and before you rebut this argument by stating that the Read more…
The Pacific Ocean is dying. Regardless of whether you agree with global warming or climate change, it is scientifically indisputable that carbon dioxide emitted into the air is polluting oceans around the world. In the past 200 years, oceans have absorbed over 118 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, with Read more…
As the world passively watches the crisis unfold in Ukraine, and the Obama Administration continues to enforce economic sanctions as effectively as it did red lines in Syria, war becomes a more likely possibility everyday. The dovish policies of the Obama Administration have not only allowed Al-Assad to remain in Read more…
By now many of you have probably heard of the agreement between the cable giants, Comcast and Time Warner, to merge into a single entity. Comcast has agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion in stock in an agreement that would combine the two largest cable service providers Read more…
How everyday consumers can serve as their own private attorneys general when the Department of Justice fails to act.
As we dive head first into the holiday season, it’s a good time to reflect and have a serious discussion on the United State’s trade deficit, particularly with China. Anyone who has been in an American supermarket, shopping mall, or any other type of retail establishment (i.e. Wal-Mart) has probably Read more…